The paper attempts to estimate expropriation risks for shareholders in the Russian economy. On the basis of the survey of nearly 1000 manufacturing firms which was conducted in 2009 a series of special "ownership insecurity indices" is constructed and their variation by types of risks and firms...

This paper studies the relationship between labor market institutions and policies and labor market performance using a new and unique dataset that covers the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, which in the last two decades experienced radical economic and institutional...

The paper argues that when developing an explanatory model of the early-stage entrepreneurial activity level (measured by total index of early entrepreneurial activity - TEA) one should consider the "path dependency" of the "institutional matrix" of different societies. Otherwise one could...

The paper investigates innovation activities of enterprises, and the impact both of intra-firm features and external determinants of business climate on these activities in transitional economies. The main attention is focused on administrative barriers and accompanying corruption burden in the...

The paper examines CEO turnover and separation of ownership from control in the Russian manufacturing. Empirical analysis is based on micro-data of the recent representative survey «Russian firms in a global economy» conducted in 2014. The data shows that CEO turnover in the Russian...

In this paper, I explore public-private wage gaps across Russian regions. Using the October wage survey data for 2005-2013, I show that the wage gap varies signifi cantly across space. My analysis suggests that this variation can be explained by the demographic composition of regional population...