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Sub-National Variation of Corruption in Russia: What Do We Know About It?
REGION: Regional Studies of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. 2013. Vol. 2. No. 2. P. 153-180.
Libman A., Kozlov V. A.
While corruption is generally accepted as a major problem for Russia, there exists a large variation of the level and forms of corruption across sub-national regions of the Russian Federation. Multiple quantitative measures of sub-national corruption levels in Russia in the last decade exist, based on different methodologies and provided by different sources. While some of these measures have been actively used in academic research, others received less scholarly attention. The aim of this paper is to provide a critical review of the available corruption indicators for the Russian regions, discussing their advantages and disadvantages and comparing the pictures of corruption different datasets provide for various regions of Russia.
Leonard C. S., Nazarov Z., Vakulenko E., Economics of Transition and Institutional Change 2016 Vol. 24 No. 3 P. 421-446
This paper assesses the effect of sub-national institutions on the economic performance of Russia's regions (oblasts, republics, krais and okrugs) from 2001 to 2008, a period of rapid economic advancement and recentralization. Approximating sub-national institutions with the RA Expert index of investment risk, we find that a reduction in investment risk by one standard deviation ...
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Kossova T. V., Kossova E. V., Sheluntcova M., / Высшая школа экономики. Series WP BRP "Economics/EC". 2014. No. WP BRP 82/EC/2014.
This paper aims to investigate differences in the volume and structure of alcohol consumption and then to reveal the impact of alcohol consumption on life expectancy in Russian regions. We consider the contribution of different product to the dynamics of consuming absolute alcohol. Necessary data were collected from the Federal State Statistics Service of Russia ...
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fgh g., Libman A., Post-Soviet Affairs 2015 Vol. 31 No. 4 P. 304-338
Corruption is widespread throughout the former Communist states, and it is particularly severe and entrenched in Russia. Despite the fact that Russia's contemporary corruption has recently become a subject of analysis, there is, however, no study that has addressed the role of the Communist legacy in the development of various aspects of corruption. This paper ...
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Badalyan M. R., Финансы и бизнес 2017 No. 1 P. 114-123
Corruption in Armenia, as a rule, is viewed in parallel with Russian corruption. Nevertheless, the combination of social, cultural and political factors that determine corruption in Armenia differ markedly. The paper examines the main problems that induced the restoration of corruption and its further transformation into the norm of life. The results of the research ...
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Akhmedjonov A., Ilina I. N., Leonard C. S. et al., / Высшая школа экономики. Series WP BRP "Economics/EC". 2013. No. 42.
This paper assesses the impact of the quality of governance on economic performance in Russia’s 83 regions (Oblasts, Republics, Krais and Okrugs) from 2000 to 2008, a period of rapid economic advancement. Defining governance broadly as how authority is exercised, and using as a proxy a measure of the investment risk by region, this paper ...
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Yakovlev A. A., Tkachenko A., Rodionova Y., Вопросы экономики 2018 № 10 С. 90-105
The experience of the last decade has demonstrated that the state policy on the extension of competitive procedures in public procurement has been challenged by the attempts of customers and suppliers to restrict competition. The mass survey of customers and suppliers carried out by the Institute for Industrial and Market Studies in 2017 showed that ...
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Levin M. I., Сатаров Г. А., Вопросы экономики 2014 № 1 С. 61-77
The Russian economy is in transition period “from plan to market”, which is characterized by immature institutions and expansion of rentseeking behavior. In this article, the authors consider rent as a possible excess return above the minimum income needed to encourage an agent to implement the actions specified by the principal. In this paper the ...
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Levin M. I., Matrosova K. A., Shilova N., Финансы и бизнес 2014 № 4 С. 4-8
The first part of the article contains a thorough review of the existing literature on possible links between innovative development of national economy and corruption. The second part of the article is a research on such links in Russia. Having analyzed the existing regional data, we have tested several hypothesis, among them: (1) higher economic ...
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Fattakhov T., Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены 2015 № 128 С. 66-95
Abstract. Over more than ten years, Russia has been at the top of the list of the OECD countries by traffic-related death rate per 1000 residents. The death rate in Russia is five- to six-fold greater than in most of the developed countries, given that the number of cars per 1000 residents is much lower. ...
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Demidova O., / Высшая школа экономики. Series WP BRP "Economics/EC". 2014. No. WP BRP 50/EC/2014.
The purpose of this study is to identify the spatial effects of the main macroeconomic indicators of the eastern and western regions of Russia. These regions differ significantly in population density and the distances between cities. The main research question we are interested in is the following: how are events occurring in one of the ...
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Ostrovnaya M., Elena Podkolzina, Journal of Competition Law & Economics 2015 Vol. 11 No. 2 P. 331-352
Why do people violate the law? The Hobbesian outlook would be that people violate the law in the absence of appropriate punishment. John Stuart Mill would have attributed the violation to the lack of incentives to behave legally. In this paper, we combine these two factors to examine the effect of antitrust regulation on price ...
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Guriev S., Vakulenko E., / Центр экономических и финансовых исследований и разработок в российской экономической школе, Российская экономическая школа. Series "CEFIR / NES Working Paper". 2012. No. 180.
In this paper we study convergence among Russian regions. We find that while there was no convergence in 1990s, the situation changed dramatically in 2000s. While interregional GDP per capita gaps still persist, the differentials in incomes and wages decreased substantially. We show that fiscal redistribution did not play a major role in convergence. We ...
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Исследование спроса на труд иностранных мигрантов в российских регионах по поданным заявкам на квоты
Vakulenko E., Леухин Р. С., Прикладная эконометрика 2015 Т. 37 № 1 С. 67-86
In this paper we analyse the demand for the foreign workforce in Russian regions. We use the Russian Ministry of Labour (Rostrud) data on migrant applications and the dataset on Russian firms provided by the Bureau van Dijk. We show features of the demanded migrant labour and also find that the inflow of internal migrants ...
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Levin M. I., Matrosova K. A., Вопросы экономики 2014 № 4 С. 99-122
The paper considers monitoring of environmental change as the central element of environmental regulation. Monitoring, as each kind of principal-agent relations, easily gives rise to corruptive behavior. In the paper we analyze economic models of environmental monitoring with high costs, incomplete information and corruption. These models should be the elements of environmental economics and are ...
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Fedorovykh D., Финансы и бизнес 2014 № 2 С. 4-13
The idea of ligalization of bribe giving for certain types of bribes was expressed by K. Basu in 2011 and got a name Basu proposal. In this paper we discuss effects that can be caused by the direct implementation of this proposal. Our game-theoretic model shows that while legalisation of certain bribe-giving occurances can lead ...
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Soboleva I. V., Sobolev A. S., Бизнес. Общество. Власть 2011 № 7 С. 179-187
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Smirnykh L. I., / Воронежский государственный университет. Серия С50 "экономическая". 2012. № 11-1.
The study examined changes in the differentiation of the Russian regions during the crisis of 2008-2009 compared to the 1998-1999 crisis. As a hypothesis assumes that economic growth has led to a reduction in differentiation of regions. The results showed that with the increase in the absolute level of regional GDP per capita estimated differentiation ...
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Detkova P., Tkachenko A., Yakovlev A. A., Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 2021 Vol. 189 P. 217-233
A high level of corruption usually constrains economic development in emerging countries. However, anti-corruption campaigns often fail because the relevant policies need to be implemented by existing corrupt governments. This article studies the extent of bureaucrats’ heterogeneity in attitude to the problem of corruption. Due to the sensitivity of direct questions on corruption, we conduct ...
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Detkova P., Podkolzina E., Tkachenko A., International Journal of Public Administration 2018 P. 414-434
This paper estimates the impact of corruption on the incentives of procurers to maintain honest competition in tenders. Customers, who procure for themselves, and Agencies, who procure for the customers in their region are considered. Basing on a large dataset of open auctions conducted by Russian regional-level authorities in 2011, the analysis shows that in ...
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Remington T. F., Soboleva I. V., Sobolev A. S. et al., / National Council for Eurasian and East European Research. Series "NCEEER Working Paper". 2011. No. 825-06.
On the basis of in-depth case studies of four Russian regions, Kirov and Voronezh oblasts and Krasnoyarsk and Perm' krais, the trade-offs among social and economic policy at the regional level in Russia are examined. All four regional governments seek to develop entrepreneurship while preserving social welfare obligations and improving compensation in the public sector. ...
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Tatarko A., Mironova A. A., Social Sciences 2016
Objective. This article analyses the association between personal values and the acceptability of corruption in Russia, France, Germany, and Latvia. Several studies show that cultural values can be related to the level of corruption in the countries at the societal level. We look at the following two questions: (1) Can universal personal values influence the ...
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Fedorovykh D., Финансы и бизнес 2013 № 4 С. 31-50
Corrupt buyers and sellers of government services often face difficulties finding each other. Their activity is illegal, so one cannot just ask: "will you take my bribe?" or "how much will you give me if I accelerate this bureaucratic procedure?" Professional intermediaries help reveal this information. Sometimes intermediaries perform some legal functions too (e. g. ...
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Semerikova E. V., Demidova O., Пространственная экономика 2015 № 2 С. 64-85
This paper analyzes the regional unemployment in Russia and Germany in 2005–2010 and addresses issues of choosing the right specification of spatial-econometric models. The analysis based on data of 75 Russian and 370 German regions showed that for Germany the choice of the spatial weighting matrix has a more significant influence on the parameter estimates ...
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Fedyunina A., Kadochnikov S. M., / The Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy (BMWFW). Series "FIW Working Paper". 2015. No. 133.
In this paper, we investigate the relationship between export performance and economic growth in Russian regions. We propose a methodology for decomposition of export growth into intensive and extensive margins and distinguish between product- and geographic extensive components within extensive margin. An empirical analysis suggests that higher growth rates in Russian regions are associated with ...
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