In this paper we use a comparative perspective to explore the ways in which institutions andnetworks have influenced entrepreneurial development in Russia. We utilize GlobalEntrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data to study the effects of the weak institutionalenvironment in Russia on...

We analyse a three-year panel data set of Russian firms spanning from 2000 to 2002 and we investigate the effect of regional institutional and economic factors on entry rates across time, industries and regions. The paper builds on a novel database and exploits inter-regional variation in a...