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The role of Old Believers' enterprises : evidence from the nineteenth century Moscow textile industry
Raskov, Danila; Kufenko, Vadim - 2013
The early accumulation of capital and the pioneering of capitalist enterprise have been undertaken in many countries by heterodox religious communities. The role of the Old Believers (further OB) in the early development of Russian industry and trade was noted by many economic historians...
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Public Trust in Internet Voting Systems : Evidence from Russian Public Opinion
Babayan, Valeria; Marques, Israel; Mironyuk, Mikhail; … - 2021
What are the determinants of individual-level trust in Internet-based voting in non-democracies? Modern digital and electronic transformations of the electoral process offer citizens new forms of voting, however it is not clear which citizens are prepared to trust these innovations. Existing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013312247
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Privacy Versus Security in Trying Times : Evidence from Russian Public Opinion
Chmel, Kirill; Marques, Israel; Mironyuk, Mikhail; … - 2021
When are citizens willing to give up civil rights to enable governments to deal with large-scale emergencies in non-democracies? Emergency responses are one of the most fundamental public services governments provide. Digital transformations in government services both create new possibilities...
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Oligarchs and the Russian government: fight against corruption or the private business?
Eren, Ozlem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
Many scholars have interpreted the Russian government’s attack on the private oil companies, as in the most famous Yukos Crisis, as a legitimate battle against corruption. However, in the transition economies, the state can abuse its power by acting like a monopoly and not letting any...
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Ukrainekrieg : was sagen mehr als 8 Mio. Tweets?
Grebe, Moritz; Kandemir, Sinem; Tillmann, Peter - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 103 (2023) 7, pp. 500-502
We collect more than eight million German-language tweets on the war in Ukraine and use a machine learning approach toconstruct a daily index of uncertainty about the war. In an empirical model, we show that fluctuations in uncertainty have strong effectson financial markets and real economic...
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Zur institutionellen Steuerbarkeit von produktivem Unternehmertum im Transformationsprozess Russlands
Petrick, Martin - 2010
Economy 98, S. 893-921). Entgegen Baumols Annahme von der Konstanz des Unternehmertums in Raum und Zeit gibt es empirische und …Russia's transition from a centrally planned economy towards a western-type market economy provides an instructive case … institutional reforms of a benevolent government (Journal of Political Economy 98, pp. 893-921). Contrary to Baumol's assumptions of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304737
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COVID-19 and entrepreneurship entry and exit: Opportunity amidst adversity
Otrachshenko, Vladimir; Popova, Olga; Nikolova, Milena; … - 2022
sectors other than information technology (IT). For IT start-ups, having previous experience matters more than new skills …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013348123
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COVID-19 and Entrepreneurship Entry and Exit: Opportunity Amidst Adversity
Otrachshenko, Vladimir; Popova, Olga; Nikolova, Milena; … - 2022
sectors other than information technology (IT). For IT start-ups, having previous experience matters more than new skills …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426375
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Does corruption hinder investment? Evidence from Russian regions
Zakharov, Nikita - 2017
This paper investigates the causal relationship between corruption and fixed capital investment in Russian regions. The panel data on corruption allow to control for unobserved heterogeneity with fixed effects estimation. We address the problem of endogeneity by introducing novel instrumental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011806879
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Zur institutionellen Steuerbarkeit von produktivem Unternehmertum im Transformationsprozess Russlands
Petrick, Martin - 2010
Economy 98, S. 893-921). Entgegen Baumols Annahme von der Konstanz des Unternehmertums in Raum und Zeit gibt es empirische und …Russia's transition from a centrally planned economy towards a western-type market economy provides an instructive case … institutional reforms of a benevolent government (Journal of Political Economy 98, pp. 893-921). Contrary to Baumol's assumptions of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008901312