We analyze comprehensive manufacturing firm data to measure the contribution of inter-firm employment reallocation to aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard decomposition technique to better reflect the role of firm...

We analyze comprehensive manufacturing firm data to measure the contribution of interfirm employment reallocation to aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard decomposition technique to better reflect the role of firm...

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, Russia has struggled to reassert its Great Power status internationally by fighting two bloody wars with the breakaway republic of Chechnya and launching a controversial 2008 invasion of Georgia. What can international relations theory...

The paper investigates the peculiarities of the models of economic development of Georgia and Russia. Taking into account the catch-up effect, the paper shows adjusted economic growth indicators of these countries during the post-Soviet period. Due to the presence of necroeconomy in both...

In post-Soviet economies, the decrease in the share of industry was not due to the growth of high-quality innovative services but, rather, an immediate decline in industrial production. The reason for this was the phenomenon of “necroeconomy” which combines so-called dead enterprises...