daily newspapers in the US. We find that, in their capacity as newspaper consumers, members of each group benefits …

The main focus of this paper is on the process and progress of economic reform in Russia. But I start with four … historical questions that bear on the current situation. How advanced was Russia in 1913? What relevance, if any, does the New … 1970s and 1980s? What role did Gorbachev's policies play in bringing about the final collapse of the Soviet Union? Russia …

-income taxpayers) in order to provide consistent series on the accumulation and distribution of income and wealth in Russia from the … in the United States. We also find that inequality has increased substantially more in Russia than in China and other ex …-communist countries in Eastern Europe. We relate this finding to the specific transition strategy followed in Russia. According to our …

delegated management in Imperial Russia. A regulatory change in 1893 made speculating on the St. Petersburg stock market more …

This paper studies structural transformation of Soviet Russia in 1928-1940 from an agrarian to an industrial economy … through the lens of a two-sector neoclassical growth model. We construct a large dataset that covers Soviet Russia during 1928 …-1940 and Tsarist Russia during 1885-1913. We use a two-sector growth model to compute sectoral TFPs as well as distortions and …

This paper shows that the move to offset printing from letterpress in the U.S. daily newspaper publishing industry was … the adoption was determined, at least in part, at the firm rather than the newspaper level, although, on the whole …, newspaper chains adopted neither earlier nor later than non-chain newspapers. Ceteris paribus, adoption occurred more quickly in …

and lower chances of newspaper exit. However, the composition of news shifts away from local governance, the number of …