economy and compel them to hire private protection organizations. Based on a survey of shopkeepers in three cities in Russia … importance of public sector reform as a component of economic transition …

that in Russia, any change in local government's own revenues is almost entirely offset by changes in shared revenues. This … puzzle of why Russia has grown more slowly and has less efficient public goods provision, compared to other countries …

Russia as a result of the abolition of serfdom in 1861. Before the emancipation, provinces, where serfs constituted the … mechanism behind a relatively fast positive effect of reform on agricultural productivity. The land reform, which instituted …

? We address these questions using an episode of a drastic reform in Russia between 2001 and 2004 which liberalized …What determines the enforcement of deregulation reform of business activities? What are the outcomes of deregulation … average, the reform reduced the administrative costs of firms; but, the progress of reform had a substantial geographical …

In this paper we document how the unequal liberalisation of business regulation across Russia’s regions leads to … varying effects on the diversification of Russia’s economy. We find that national liberalisation laws were better enforced in … reform. …

firm performance? This paper provides an empirical investigation of institutional subversion in Russia’s regions. We …

Three hypotheses about the nature of federal tax arrears in Russia in the second half of the 1990s are tested …