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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...

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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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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 …

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Entrepreneurship in transition economies: the role of institutions and generational change

Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2010

The transition economies have lower rates of entrepreneurship than are observed in most developed and developing market economies. The difference is even more marked in the countries of the former Soviet Union than those of Central and Eastern Europe. We link these differences partly with the...

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Institutions and entry: A cross-regional analysis in Russia

Bruno, Randolph Luca; Bytchkova, Maria; Estrin, Saul - 2011

We analyse a micro-panel data set to investigate the effect of regional institutional environment and economic factors on Russian new firm entry rates across time, industries and regions. The paper builds on novel databases and exploits inter-regional variation in a large number of institutional...

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