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Are Russian commercial courts biased?Evidence from a natural bankruptcy experiment
Lambert-Mogiliansky, Ariane; Sonin, Konstantin; … - HAL - 2006
We study the nature of judicial bias in bankruptcy proceedings following the enactment of bankruptcy law in Russia in 1998. We find that regional political characteristics affected judicial decisions about the numbers and types of bankruptcy procedures initiated after the law took effect. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739036
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Everyone hates privatization, but why? Survey evidence from 28 post-communist countries
Denisova, Irina; Eller, Markus; Frye, Timothy; … - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 40 (2012) 1, pp. 44-61
; whereas transition-related hardships influence support for revising privatization due to both a preference for state property …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010574232
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Federal Tax Arrears in Russia: Liquidity Problems, Federal Redistribution or Russian Resistance?
Ponomareva, Maria; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
Three hypotheses about the nature of federal tax arrears in Russia in the second half of the 1990s are tested empirically. Tax arrears can be a result of: 1) liquidity problems in firms, 2) redistribute subsidies of the federal government, or 3) regional political resistance to federal tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791588
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Everyone Hates Privatization, but Why? Survey Evidence from 28 Post-Communist Countries
Denisova, Irina; Eller, Markus; Frye, Timothy; … - Center for Economic and Financial Research (CEFIR), New … - 2010
preference for state property over private property; whereas transition-related hardships influence support for revising …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008542336
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What do Russians think about transition?
Denisova, Irina; Eller, Markus; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
Russian population about the transition process and the role of the state compared to that of free markets. We find that about … one half of Russian population is disappointed with transition and a large majority is in favor of high state regulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506841
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Are Russian Commercial Courts Biased? Evidence from a Natural Bankruptcy Experiment
Lambert-Mogiliansky, Ariane; Sonin, Konstantin; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
We study the nature of judicial bias in bankruptcy proceedings following the enactment of bankruptcy law in Russia in 1998. We find that regional political characteristics affected judicial decisions about the numbers and types of bankruptcy procedures initiated after the law took effect. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123934
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Who Wants to Revise Privatization and Why? Evidence from 28 Post-Communist Countries
Denisova, Irina; Eller, Markus; Frye, Timothy; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
property. Economic hardships during transition increase support for revising privatization due to the perceived unfairness of … privatization, but does affect how economic hardships during transition shape these attitudes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005497879
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Who Wants to Revise Privatization and Why? Evidence from 28 Post-Communist Countries
Denisova, Irina; Eller, Markus; Frye, Timothy; … - Center for Economic and Financial Research (CEFIR), New … - 2007
. Economic hardships during transition and work in the state sector also increase support for revising privatization, but mainly … impact of positive and negative transition experiences on attitudes toward revising privatization. In countries with low … inequality,individuals with positive and negative transition experiences hold significantly different views about the superiority …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005171027
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Incentives to provide local public goods: fiscal federalism, Russian style
Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - Center for Economic and Financial Research (CEFIR), New … - 2000
Based on a unique data set on Russian city budgets, this paper shows that revenue sharing between regional and local governments provides local governments with no incentive to increase tax base or provide public goods. Any change in local government’s own revenues is almost entirely offset by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005086557
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Federal Tax Arrears in Russia: Liquidity Problems, Federal Redistribution, or Regional Resistance?
Ponomareva, Maria; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - Center for Economic and Financial Research (CEFIR), New … - 2004
Three hypotheses about the nature of federal tax arrears in Russia in the second half of the 1990s are tested empirically. Tax arrears can be a result of: 1) liquidity problems in firms, 2) redistribute subsidies of the federal government, or 3) regional political resistance to federal tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005086581