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This study comprises an introductory section and three essays analysing Russia's economic transition from the early … Russia, the essay examines public infrastructure provision by Russian industrial enterprises. It is found that to a large … issues Russia has faced during its somewhat troublesome transformation from state-controlled command economy to market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012148900
Political and economic transition is often blamed for Russia's 40% surge in deaths between 1990 and 1994 (the Russian … explains a large share of the mortality crisis, suggesting that Russia's transition to capitalism and democracy was not as … consumption and mortality during the campaign experienced larger transition era increases, and (3) Other former Soviet states and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287606
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
Political and economic transition is often blamed for Russia's 40% surge in deaths between 1990 and 1994 (the "Russian … explains a large share of the mortality crisis, suggesting that Russia's transition to capitalism and democracy was not as … consumption and mortality during the campaign experienced larger transition era increases, and (3) Other former Soviet states and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010754119
Liberalization policies of transition have led to the mass reduction of enterprise subsidization which prevailed in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005650275
Based on 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/10005519010
in 40 regions of Russia, this paper examines public infrastructure provision by Russian industrial enterprises.We find … early 1990s.Industrial firms' engagement in the provision of infrastructure services, such as heating, electricity and road … that, first, to a large degree engagement in infrastructure provision - as proxied by district heating production - is a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012148505
in 40 regions of Russia, this paper examines public infrastructure provision by Russian industrial enterprises. We find … early 1990s. Industrial firms' engagement in the provision of infrastructure services, such as heating, electricity and road … that, first, to a large degree engagement in infrastructure provision – as proxied by district heating production – is a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419599
Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual manufacturing census data from 1985 to 2000, we find that Soviet … Russia displayed job flow behavior quite different from market economies, with very low rates of job reallocation that bore … reforming Russia than in "gradualist" Ukraine, as did the estimated effects of privatization and competitive pressures from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262315
, but increased slightly during the transition, while job destruction rose markedly. Heterogeneity in firm employment change … during the socialist period, while they have made a strong positive contribution during the transition. Privatization and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262559