Organizations → Economics Education and Research Consortium  Russian Federation

Geographic concentration of industries: causes and consequences
May 15, 2007 09:53

The current work makes practical proposals founded on the analyses of government policy, dealing with the strengthening of Russian economy integration.

Human Capital and Political Business Cycles
May 15, 2007 09:53

This paper proposes an alternative explanation of the phenomenon of political business cycle in the experience of government.

Probability of Bank Failure: The Russian Case
May 15, 2007 09:53

This paper investigates factors affecting soundness of a bank, taking into consideration micro level data, as well as macro level component.

Asymmetric fuel pricing in transition economies: The case of Moscow
May 15, 2007 09:53

This paper finds out asymmetry in the fuel market of Moscow and analyzes the influence of companies' and market characteristics on asymmetric response.

Elections and the quality of regional government in Russia
May 15, 2007 09:53

The publication proposes an alternative explanation of the phenomenon of political business cycles – human capital of government.

Modeling of auctions for the wholesale electricity market
May 15, 2007 09:53

The paper proposes an alternative variant of the wholesale electricity auction.

Environmental efficiencies and economic growth in the CIS
May 15, 2007 09:53

The paper forecasts the environmental consequences arising from economic growth and predicting the consequences of international trade in pollution permits are two problems facing many national governments.

Policy responses to long-term unemployment: The case of Ukraine
May 15, 2007 09:53

The paper discusses possible measures to solve long-term unemployment issue in Ukraine.

Political economy of tariff unification: The case of Russia
May 15, 2007 09:53

The work analyzes the import tariff structure established in 2002 and suggestes ways to reduce distortions.

Bankruptcy in Russia: External Management Performance
May 15, 2007 09:53

The paper examines the performance of the external management procedure on the data set from the arbitration court of the Udmurt Republic and the unique data set of politically connected firms that went bankrupt 1995–2004 in Russia.

Effects of the 2004 Personal Income Tax System Reform on the Shadow Sector in Ukraine
May 15, 2007 09:53

The paper researches the consequences of the pit reform of 2004 introduced on tax revenues, shadow activities, and income streams.

On convergence of contractual trajectories in pure exchange economies
May 15, 2007 09:53

The study is aimed to investigate the convergence to equilibrium of trajectories generated by contractual processes.

Firm-paid vs. worker-paid on-the-job training in Russia: Determinants and returns
May 15, 2007 09:53

Main objective of this research was to study the factors that affect incentives of firms and workers to invest into employee training in Russia.

Relative property rights in transition economies: Can the oligarchs be productive
May 15, 2007 09:53

The paper examines how ownership affects enterprise performance, focusing on how oligarchs— the politically and economically strong conglomerates — affect the firms they own.