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The composition and interests of Russia’s business lobbies: testing Olson’s hypothesis of the “encompassing organization”

Pyle, William; Solanko, Laura - In: Public Choice 155 (2013) 1, pp. 19-41

Why are some business lobbies less benign in their external effects than others? In The rise and decline of nations (New Haven: Yale University Press, <CitationRef CitationID="CR44">1982</CitationRef>), Mancur Olson proposed that less-encompassing groups—i.e., those whose constituents collectively represent a relatively narrow range of...</citationref>

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Explaining the Dynamics in Perceptions of Job Insecurity in Russia

Lokshin, Michael; Gimpelson, Vladimir; Oshchepkov, Aleksey - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Contrary to the experiences of other countries, perceptions of job insecurity in Russia were not correlated with the … wage distribution faced by workers. We test this hypothesis using data from ten panel rounds of Russia Longitudinal …

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Essays on Russia’s Economic Transition

Solanko, Laura - Suomen Pankki - 2006

This study comprises an introductory section and three essays analysing Russia’s economic transition from the early … issues Russia has faced during its somewhat troublesome transformation from state-controlled command economy to market … regions of Russia, the essay examines public infrastructure provision by Russian industrial enterprises. It is found that to a …

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Household Income Dynamics in Two Transition Economies

Lokshin, Michael; Ravallion, Martin - In: Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics 8 (2007) 3, pp. 1182-1182

of household incomes allowing for endogenous attrition. Our estimates for Hungary and Russia in the 1990s reveal …

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Market Power in the Russian Banking Industry

Fungacova, Zuzana; Solanko, Laura; Weill, Laurent - Laboratoire de Recherche en Gestion (LaRGE), Institut … - 2010

The aim of this paper is to analyze bank competition in Russia by measuring the market power of Russian banks and its …

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An empirical note on growth and convergence across Russian regions

Solanko, Laura - EconWPA - 2003

This empirical note uses publicly available Goskomstat data to investigate income growth and convergence across Russian regions. Using data for 1992-2001, we find strong sigma divergence simultaneously with beta convergence. he results indicate that per capita income in Russian regions may be...

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Risk-taking by Russian banks: Do location, ownership and size matter?

Fungacova, Zuzana; Solanko, Laura - Siirtymätalouksien tutkimuslaitos, Suomen Pankki - 2008

The Russian banking sector has experienced enormous growth rates during the last 6-7 years. The rapid growth of assets has, however, contributed to a decrease in the capital adequacy ratio, thus influencing the ability of banks to cope with risk. Using quarterly data spanning from 1999 to 2007...

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Household Income Dynamics in Two Transition Economies

Lokshin, Michael; Ravallion, Martin - In: Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics 8 (2004) 3, pp. 1182-1182

of household incomes allowing for endogenous attrition. Our estimates for Hungary and Russia in the 1990s reveal …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005584865

Changes in household composition as a shock-mitigating strategy

Abanokova, Kseniya; Lokshin, Michael - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2013

This paper uses data from the Russian Longitudinal Survey that span the two recent economic recessions of 1998 and 2008 to study the effect of declining incomes on household composition. We hypothesize that individuals face a tradeoff between taking advantages of economies of scale and...

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Market power in the russian banking industry

Fungácová, Zuzana; Solanko, Laura; Weill, Laurent - In: Economie Internationale (2010) 124, pp. 127-146

The aim of this paper is to analyze bank competition in Russia by measuring the market power of Russian banks and its …

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