The budget of the Soviet Communist Party -- Trends in party finance, 1939 - 1965 -- The special budget of 1948 -- "Impossible structures": resource allocation and party donors -- Funding loyalty with promises -- The party and its overseers -- Selective justice: party control under Stalin -- How...

This paper analyzes the economic foundations of a non-democratic political regime, where the ruling bureaucracy captures rents through collective control over state property and job assignment. The model developed here yields the equilibrium in the 'political labor market,' where the ruling...

This paper examines structural change in the Russian economy in 1990-2001, as measured by the changing composition of output and consumption, using international panel data sets as a frame of reference. It calculates a series of indexes to determine the extent to which the Russian economy is...