firm performance? This Paper provides an empirical investigation of institutional subversion in Russia’s regions. We …

regulatory capture using micro-level data on the preferential treatment of firms through regional laws and regulations in Russia …How does regulatory capture affect growth? We construct measures of the political power of firms and regional …) a high level of regulatory capture hurts the performance of firms that have no political connections and boosts the …

regulatory capture using micro-level data on the preferential treatment of firms through regional laws and regulations in Russia …How does regulatory capture affect growth? We construct measures of the political power of firms and regional …) a high level of regulatory capture hurts the performance of firms that have no political connections and boosts the …

federalism brought about by the post-1991 reforms, variations entry rates during the 1990s were explained largely by state level …

, we also take into consideration the possibility that the greater economic federalism associated with the reforms of the …

We study the nature of judicial bias in bankruptcy proceedings following the enactment of bankruptcy law in Russia in …

the legal system in Russia is faulted by the capture of regional divisions of arbitrage courts. We analyse the …

Building on a model that integrates reforms into exogenous and endogenous growth models, this paper designs an … Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Russia and Slovakia) over their first ten years of freedom. We draw three conclusions from … the empirical evidence. (1) Contrary to the litany that everyone favors reforms, we find that voting for strong reform …