Currently, international climate negotiations concentrate on design issues for the flexible instruments outlined in the Kyoto Protocol. As the 6th Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change in late 2000 or early 2001 has to take decisions on these matters, it is...

The paper discusses the relative importance of the 'real' political actions versus the changes of symbolic nature in the bargaining over devolution, studying the case of personnel decentralization in security agencies in Russia in 2000-2007. While in the 1990s under Boris Yeltsin regional...

Die schwere wirtschaftliche und politische Krise Rußlands läßt Zweifel an der Reformfähigkeit dieses Landes aufkommen. Welche Fehler wurden beim Übergang von der Planwirtschaft in die Marktwirtschaft gemacht? In welchem Umfang ist die Krise politisch bedingt? Wie sind die Reformchancen?

The absence or the presence of the resource curse is often explained by the specifics of political and institutional factors. The aim of this paper is to study this effect looking separately at economic and political institutions and at their interaction. Unlike most empirical papers in the...

The paper consists of 4 parts. I will start with defining the relevant aspects of tax neutrality. Then, I will evaluate general profit taxation in Russia with respect to its influence on economic decisions. The third part discusses the government bill for a simplified single tax for small...