Law and public administration schools in Russia vastly exceed in their popularity sciences and engineering. We relate such lopsided demand for higher education to the quality of institutions setting "rules of the game" in economy and society. Cross-country and Russian interregional data indicate...

We study the impact of Russian regional governors’ rotation and their affiliation with private sector firms for the quality of investment climate in Russian regions. A theoretical model presented in the paper predicts that these factors taken together improve "endogenous" property rights under...

The paper discusses advantages and shortcomings of the Bowles’ book, with the emphasis on the community ownership, altruism, and cooperative behavior. The author claims that the book while being surely valuable as an academic contribution, can not, however, substitute standard textbooks in...

The paper presents an economic theory of corporate social responsibility (CSR) based on the Coase theorem and analyzes economic, social, political and institutional factors that could affect comparative advantages of CSR over government regulation. Discussion of the Russian CSR model stresses...

The author considers the reform of higher school economic education as a part of Russia's economic reforms. He specifies the difficulties originating from resource and institutional constraints and prereform inertia. According to his opinion, the rapid development of the Russian school of...