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Creating Capitalism: Politics, Reforms, and Economic Performance

Wykoff, Frank - 2001

Building on a model that integrates reforms into exogenous and endogenous growth models, this paper designs an econometric model of the interplay between economic reform measures, political decisions and economic performance. Several key hypotheses about transition are tested using two-stage...

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Redistributive politics in Russia: The political economy of agricultural subsidies

Kvartiuk, Vasyl; Herzfeld, Thomas - In: Comparative Economic Studies 63 (2021) 1, pp. 1-30

This paper explores whether redistributive politics can explain differences in agricultural subsidies in Russia, a country whose autocratic regime represents a fertile ground for strategic redistribution. Relying on political economy literature, we examine the strategies regional and federal...

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Risks, Responsibility and Public Respect : Cases of Entrepreneurs Elected in the USA and Russia

Yanovskiy, Konstantin; Zhavoronkov, Sergei; Shestakov, … - 2013

Adam Smith pointed out public respect, prestige as significant component of compensation "for some employment" ("honorableness ... of employment"). We assumed, the public moral sanction on success (Weber), public demand for "self-made man" should correlate positively with number of businessmen...

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Can Authoritarian Propaganda Compete with the Opposition on Social Media? Experimental Evidence from Russia

Rochlitz, Michael; Schoors, Koen J. L.; Zakharov, Nikita - 2023

This paper probes the persuasive power of authoritarian propaganda on social media and compares it to a similar campaign by the opposition. We carried out a field experiment during the 2018 presidential elections in Russia by collecting voting intentions and then randomly advertising a pro- and...

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Creating Capitalism: Politics, Reforms, and Economic Performance

Wykoff, Frank - Economics Department, Claremont McKenna College - 2001

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Human Capital and Political Business Cycles

Akhmed, Akhmedov - EERC Research Network, Russia and CIS - 2006

Classical theory considers political business cycle as a result of either opportunistic behavior of government (opportunistic cycle) or aiming policy on certain constituency (partisan cycle). In this paper, we propose an alternative explanation of the phenomenon of political business cycle —...

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Creating capitalism : politics, reforms, and economic performance ; an econometric analysis of six countries from 1989-1999

Wykoff, Frank C. - 2001

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Minimum Wage and Unemployment : Evidence from Russia

Khan Ten, Gi - 2020

This paper investigates the unemployment effects of the Russian minimum-wage policy. The results suggest that higher … minimum wages slightly increase unemployment rates among young workers but do not affect the older workforce. The textbook … if they cannot exercise capital-labor substitution easily. In line with the revealed unemployment among youth and …

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The Effect of Health Shocks on Labour Market Outcomes in Russia

Aleksandrova, Ekaterina; Bagranova, Venera; Gerry, … - 2020

This paper provides evidence for the effects of health shocks measured by any negative change in self-assessed health (SAH) status on employment, personal income, and wages in the Russian population. We employ the average treatment effect on the treated (ATET) estimator combined with propensity...

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The Political Economy of Russian City Growth

Gang, Ira N.; Stuart, Robert C. - 1999

This paper examines the political economy of Russian city growth. For the 1980s, we model the growth of 168 Russian cities located in 71 Russian provinces (oblast level). We examine the role of both general socio-economic characteristics and specific state controls. Our goal is to understand the...

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