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Who Demands Collective Action in an Imperfect Institutional Environment? A Case-Study of the Professional Community of Attorneys in Russia
Kazun, Anton - 2014
We analyse the professional community of attorneys in Russia in order to understand their potential for collective … action in an imperfect institutional environment. In 2013 we conducted a survey of 372 attorneys in 9 regions of Russia. Two … core could be an instrument for an estimation of the quality of law enforcement in Russia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044935
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Total Factor Productivity and the Institutional Possibility Frontier : An Outline of a Link between Two Theoretical Perspectives on Institutions, Culture and Long Run Growth
Lokshin, Ilya - 2016
The paper proposes an outline for the link between two theoretical perspectives on the prerequisites of high institutional quality and long run growth. One framework is based on the tradeoff between disorder and dictatorship and introduces the notion of the institutional possibility frontier,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013002795
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Institutional Factors of Government Efficiency : Cross-Country Comparative Analysis
Gasparyan, Olga - 2015
Government efficiency is one of many fuzzy terms in contemporary political science. Due to its multidimensionality, it is not well-defined and, therefore, hard to identify. The idea of the current research is to create an index of government efficiency using data envelopment analysis. Using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029395
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Internal Empires I : Social Institutions of the Frontier
Foa, Roberto - 2012
zones in four countries: Brazil, Russia, Canada and the United States. Taking a wide range of survey items, we find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013105701
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Why Dismiss a Good Case? Dual-Purpose Judicial Institutions in Constitutional Courts Under Autocracy : Evidence from Russia
Grigoriev, Ivan - 2018
The Russian Constitutional Court (RCC) has over time developed a practice of adopting so-called “positive dismissals” (Pozitivnoe Opredelenie) which complements (but also undermines) the existent formal procedure of only delivering decisions on merits with Rulings (Postanovlenie). The paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012922946
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Training Strategies and Skill Development Amid Weak Institutions : Evidence from Russia
Marques, Israel - 2017
' associations and labor unions – or free, transparent and efficient market mechanisms is cooperation possible. Contemporary Russia … outsource training to private third-parties. On the other hand, civil society and judicial institutions are weak in Russia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942555
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The Change of Fiscal Multiplier when Switching from Managed Exchange Rate Regime to the Floating One
Pyltsyna, Ekaterina - 2019
spending multiplier was estimated for Russia. The study was conducted with the use of panel SVAR and DSGE models …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012896222
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What Happens to Happiness When People Get Older? Socio-Economic Determinants of Life Satisfaction in Later Life
Kolosnitsyna, Marina - 2015
discussions. In Russia, this process has also become a topic for many studies examining socio-economic characteristics and health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013032053
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Religiosity and Life Satisfaction in Russia : Evidence from the Russian Data
Bryukhanov, Maksym - 2017
Does religiosity make you happy? Many studies document positive associations between religiosity and various forms of subjective wellbeing. This is also true for general life satisfaction in normal economic conditions and in the case of economic shocks. However, both life satisfaction and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943570
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An Ongoing Reversal of Fortune Among Russian Cities : City Age, Natural Resources, and Changing Spatial Income Distribution
Skorobogatov, Alexander - 2014
This paper documents the negative link between the age of Russian cities and their average wage. This link is robust to various definitions of city age and sample censuring, the inclusion of regional and time fixed effects, dependent variable spatial lag and many urban characteristics. This link...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052244