Using a panel of 77 Russian regions from 1990-1998, we investigate the reasons behind largely differing regional growth performance. We consider politico-institutional characteristics, indicators of regional economic reform, and initial conditions (including economic, geographic and structural...

This chapter provides an overview of how Russian environmental policy could act as an instrument to enhance Russia’s international economic competitiveness. In particular, the chapter identifies and analyses some core environmentally-related problem areas which currently constrain Russia’s...

We construct key household and individual economic variables using a panel micro data set from the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) for 1994-2005. We analyze cross-sectional income and consumption inequality and find that inequality decreased during the 2000-2005 economic recovery....

We construct key household and individual economic variables using a panel micro data set from the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) for 1994-2005. We analyze cross-sectional income and consumption inequality and find that inequality decreased during the 2000-2005 economic recovery....

The paper discusses the effect of economic reforms on gender differences in <p> participation rates and earnings in Russia in the early 1990s. Besides <p> national statistics it uses survey data from the city Taganrog, 1989 and <p> 1993/9. Although local, these repeated cross sections provide unique <p>...</p></p></p></p>

Using a database from post-communist, pre-deposit-insurance Russia, we demonstrate the presence of quantity-based sanctioning of weaker banks by both firms and households, particularly after the financial crisis of 1998. Evidence for the standard form of price discipline, however, is notably...