took place. As an independent state, Russia exists since 1992. This event defined the period under consideration in our … peculiar to any independent state. Before that Russia was a republic in a federal state where finances were highly centralized …

classic issue in labor economics with the realistic expectation of obtaining results for Russia comparable in quality and … find that the returns to education in Russia are quite low compared with those reported in the literature on countries … education at all levels, auguring the imminent erosion of one of Russia's few assets not yet completely devalued, the human …

The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of corruption on bank lending in Russia. This issue is of major … interest in order to understand the causes of financial underdevelopment and the effects of corruption in Russia. We use … hampers bank lending in Russia. We investigate whether this negative role of corruption is influenced by the degree of bank …

.6 percent overall in 1992 to 10.1 percent in 1996. Economic conditions prevalent in Russia's labor market are found to strongly …

Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991, Russia experienced a series of economic shocks …

autonomy, and by 1994 almost half of all budgetary expenditure in Russia was spent at the regional level. This paper examines … the system of transfers which has developed in Russia over the last few years and asks how far it has succeeded in making …

From January 1992 to the first half of 1994 the death rate in Russia rose by over 30 per cent, a rise of a magnitude …