Retail trade presented a most liberalized market segment since the beginningof 1990s in the Russian economy. Suddenly, the state was brought back in bymid-2000s. Th e Federal Law On Main Provisions for State Regulation of TradingActivity was adopted aft er continuous and furious debates. Where...

The paper is aimed at assessing the regulatory impact of the new trade law (2009). A standardized data survey is used for revealing market sellers that may gain from the introduction of the trade law. 512 filled questionnaires were collected from the managers of chain stores and their suppliers...