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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 … the number influenced by local business groups. Our findings have implications for the literatures on federalism and on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050904
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State Corroding Federalism
Cai, Hongbin; Treisman, Daniel - 2007
Competition among local governments in a decentralized political system is often thought to discipline lazy or corrupt officials, improving public good provision and increasing welfare. Some scholars note possible distortions due to spillovers or a race-to-the-bottom, but suggest that central...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014070526
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What Determines the Extent of Fiscal Decentralization? The Russian Paradox
Freinkman, Lev; Plekhanov, Alexander - 2005
The paper provides an empirical analysis of the determinants of fiscal decentralization within Russian regions in 1994 … of the determinants of decentralization that points to the link between decentralization and the structure of regional … government revenue: access to windfall revenues leads to a more centralized governance structure. The degree of decentralization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014062337
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A tale of two crises : federal transfers and regional economies in Russia in 2009 and 2014-2015
Alexeev, Michael V.; Chernyavskiy, Andrey - In: Economic systems 42 (2018) 2, pp. 175-185
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012125578
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Does participatory budgeting improve decentralized public service delivery?
Beuermann, Diether W.; Amelina, Maria - 2014
decentralization context for the success of participatory governance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011287246
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On the Laffer Effect in Post-Communist Economies : On the Bases of the Observation of Russian Literature
Papava, Vladimer - 2012
Originally the Laffer Curve was formulated in a macroeconomic context, for which reason it is not applicable to individual taxes, but rather to a certain average aggregate tax. The 'corrections' to the Laffer Curve are based on a factor of time. High importance is the question – in which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013097347
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Institutional Change and Economic Development in Siberia and the Russian Far East
Thornton, Judith A. - 2011
This paper studies the institutions for exercise of property rights in forestry, fisheries, and mining in Siberia and the Russian Far East, linking current arrangements with the administrative structures of the command era. It describes production, income, and structural change in Asian Russia...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014176616
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The Role of Local Governments’ Efficiency in Decentralized Public Service Delivery : Evidence from a Randomized Intervention in Rural Russia
Beuermann, Diether W.; Amelina, Maria - 2011
While previous literature has found that the effect of public services decentralization on quality of delivery and … in enhancing a decentralization reform. To shed light on this issue, we exploit a randomized intervention directed … major decentralization reform. We found that the intervention increased satisfaction levels with decentralized services only …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014175696
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Fifteen Years of Economic Reform in Russia : What Has Been Achieved? What Remains to Be Done?
Ahrend, Rudiger; Tompson, William - 2006
The paper provides an overview of the course of economic reform and the performance of the Russian economy since the early 1990s and an analysis of the structural reform challenges ahead. It assesses the contribution of institutional and structural reforms to economic performance over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014059705
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Federalism with and Without Political Centralization. China Versus Russia
Blanchard, Olivier J.; Shleifer, Andrei - 2003
researchers have argued that federalism could play a central role in development. We agree, but with an important caveat. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014151262