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Chapter 2. The Political Economy of Commercial Policy
McLaren, J. - 2016
This chapter surveys research on the demand for protectionism as well as theoretical and empirical work on the (i) electoral mechanisms, the (ii) lobbying institutions, and the (iii) legislative bargaining that affect its supply. A recent trend is mutual feedbacks between commercial policy on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023458
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Sticks or carrots? : comparing effectiveness of government shadow economy policies in Russia
Kluge, Janis; Libman, Alexander - 2017
Which incentives have the strongest impact on the size of the shadow economy? Is it about government's pressure against entrepreneurs operating in this sector, or is it about the benefits of legality? The goal of this paper is to explicitly contrast the role of sticks (court repressiveness) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011620553
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Economic growth outlooks in sub-federal development strategies : prospects and constraints : the 54rd ERSA Congress, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 26- 29 August 2014
Mel'nikova, Larisa - 2014
Inconsistencies in targeting and forecasting during the process of strategic planning in regions?subjects of Russian federation is atopic of the paper presented. It presents the results of analysis of regional strategies of long-term socio-economic development performed for federal subjects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509824
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Constitutions, regulations, and taxes : contradictions of different aspects of decentralization
Libman, Alexander - 2010
The paper confronts different aspects of decentralization: fiscal decentralization, postconstitutional regulatory decentralization, and constitutional decentralization – using a single dataset from Russian Federation of the Yeltsin period as a politically asymmetric country and a variety of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003979713
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Words or deeds - what matters? : Experience of recentralization in Russian security agencies
Libman, Alexander - 2010
The paper discusses the relative importance of the "real" political actions versus the changes of symbolic nature in the bargaining over devolution, studying the case of personnel decentralization in security agencies in Russia in 2000-2007. While in the 1990s under Boris Yeltsin regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003996504
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Tax return as a political statement
Libman, Alexander; Schultz, André; Graeber, Thomas - 2011
The accuracy of a tax return is usually interpreted as an outcome of the tax evasion decision by an individual. However, in non-democratic regimes with predatory blackmail tax systems it is possible that large sums voluntarily reported by influential politicians or businessmen may be used as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009231933
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Deposit Protection in a Paternalistic State : The Russian Case
Vernikov, Andrei - 2020
This paper places the institution of bank deposit protection in the context of government paternalism. I apply the theories of deposit insurance, merit goods, patronized goods, government paternalism, and institutional change to the analysis of the Russian case. I rely on statistical data from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838437
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Capitalists of All Russia, Unite! Business Mobilization Under Debilitated Dirigisme
Markus, Stanislav - 2018
prevailing view of Russia's political economy as an informal, particularistic state-business exchange. At the theoretical level …. Given institutionally incoherent state structures, the state as principal facilitates collective action by business actors … to create a parallel, non-state platform for policy formation and implementation. Such a dynamic of “debilitated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012940118
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Railways Reform and Electricity Reform in Russia, and the Role of the Ministry for Antimonopoly Policy
Pittman, Russell W. - 2003
" sector while maintaining state ownership and control of the monopoly "grid". This paper examines the details of reform and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014075403
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Interest Group Politics in a Federation
Guriev, Sergei; Yakovlev, Evgeny; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - 2014
The optimal degree of decentralization depends on the importance of inter-state externalities of local policies. We … show that inter-state externalities are determined by the spatial distribution of interest groups within the country …. Interest groups who have multi-state scope internalize inter-state externalities to a larger extent than the lobbyists with …
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