In our paper, we use the gravity model of the international trade to estimate the effect of the future WTO ascension for Russia based on the current WTO effect for Russia's WTO trade partners. Starting from Rose's specification, we constructed several progressively exact models. Nevertheless,...

Statistical evidences that some transmission channels of «resource curse» operate in Russian economy at regional level are received. Incomes from export of power resources and gratuitous federal transfers play a role in increase of officialdom, in distortion of regional elite behavior, and...

In this paper, we investigate the impact of informality on earnings inequality in Russia using the RLMS - HSE data for 2000-2010. We apply decompositions based on the recentered influence functions of unconditional quantiles proposed by Fipro, Fortin and Lemieux (Fipro et al., 2009). Our results...

Russian Abstract: В препринте на основе стохастического анализа SFA предложены оценки технической эффективности 78 регионов России в 2011-2016 годы, учитывающие...

The paper compares VAT administration quality in OECD and Russia. Econometric analysis reveals positive influence of the level of institutional development on effectiveness of tax collection. However this effect is presented only if there are no additional tax privileges, which besides direct...

We consider a mining or other extractive project, which is fulfilled on the basis of a production-sharing agreement. These agreements provide for production sharing on the basis of current IRR or current R-factor. The implications of using such production sharing mechanisms are studied with the...

Russian abstract: История и опыт строительства инфраструктуры, а также устойчивости инфраструктуры в условиях чрезвычайной ситуации не дает никаких оправданий...