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w0133: Shareholder Protection and Outside Blockholders: Substitutes or Complements?

Sergey Stepanov

w0132: Why the West Became Rich before China and Why China Has Been Catching Up with the West since 1949: nother Explanation of the “Great Divergence” and “Great Convergence” Stories

Vladimir Popov

w0131: Newspapers and Parties: How Advertising Revenues Created an Independent Press

Maria Petrova

w0129: Health Effects of Occupational Change

Olga Lazareva

w0128: Mortality in Russia: Microanalysis

Irina Denisova

w0127: Who Wants To Revise Privatization? The Complementarity of Market Skills and Institutions

Irina Denisova, Markus Eller, Timothy Frye and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

w0126: Government Control of the Media

Scott Gehlbach and Konstantin Sonin

w0125: Inference in Regression Models with Many Regressors

Stanislav Anatolyev

w0124: Specification Testing in Models with Many Instruments

Stanislav Anatolyev and Nikolay Gospodinov

w0123: Sequential Testing with Uniformly Distributed Size

Stanislav Anatolyev and Grigory Kosenok

w0122: Goal Setting as a Self-Regulation Mechanism

Anton Suvorov and Jeroen van de Ven

w0121: Advice by an Informed Intermediary: Can You Trust Your Broker?

Anton Suvorov and Natalia Tsybuleva

w0120: Segregation and the Quality of Government in a Cross-Section of Countries

Alberto Alesina and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

w0119: Corporate Governance, Ownership Structures and Investment in Transition Economies: the Case of Russia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan

Olga Lazareva, Andrei Rachinsky and Sergey Stepanov

w0118: Control Rights over Intellectual Property: Corporate Venturing and Bankruptcy Regimes

Sudipto Bhattacharya and Sergei Guriev

w0117: Russian Migrants to Russia: Choice of Location and Labor Market Outcomes

Olga Lazareva and Konstantin Sonin

w0116: Dictators and Oligarchs: A Dynamic Theory of Contested Property Rights

Sergei Guriev and Konstantin Sonin

w0115: Determinants of Expropriation in the Oil Sector: A Theory and Evidence from Panel Data

Sergei Guriev, Konstantin Sonin and Anton Kolotilin

w0114: What Russians Think about Transition: Evidence from RLMS Survey

Irina Denisova, Markus Eller and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

w0113: Media and Political Persuasion: Evidence from Russia

Ruben Enikolopov, Maria Petrova and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

w0112: Budget Uncertainty and Faculty Contracts: A Dynamic Framework for Comparative Analysis

Irina Khovanskaya, Konstantin Sonin and Maria Yudkevich

w0111: (Un)Happiness in Transition

Sergei Guriev and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

w0110: How Much Control is Enough? Monitoring and Enforcement under Stalin

Andrei Markevich

w0109: Quantity Versus Quality in the Soviet Market for Weapons

Mark Harrison and Andrei Markevich

w0108: The Resource Curse: A Corporate Transparency Channel

Artyom Durnev and Sergei Guriev

w0107: The Dictator’s Dilemma: to Punish or to Assist? Plan Failures and Interventions under Stalin

Andrei Markevich

w0106: Shareholder Access to Manager-Biased Courts and the Monitoring/Litigation Tradeoff

Sergey Stepanov

w0105: Who Wants to Revise Privatization and Why? Evidence from 28 Post-Communist Countries

Irina Denisova, Markus Eller, Timothy Frye and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

w0104: What Makes a Successful Entrepreneur? Evidence from Brazil

Simeon Djankov, Yingyi Qian, Gérard Roland and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

w0103: A Survey of Corporate Governance in Russia

Olga Lazareva, Andrei Rachinsky and Sergey Stepanov

w0102: Estimation of the Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate in Russia: Trade-Balance Approach

Nadezhda Ivanova

w0101: Monetary Policy in an Economy Sick with Dutch Disease

Kirill Sosunov and Oleg A. Zamulin (Kirill Sossounov)

w0100: Inter-Regional Trade and Lobbying

Sergei Guriev, Evgeny Yakovlev and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

w0099: Are Russian Commercial Courts Biased? Evidence from a Bankruptcy Law Transplant

Ariane Lambert-Mogiliansky, Konstantin Sonin and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

w0098: Entry to and Exit from Poverty in Russia: Evidence from Longitudinal Data

Irina Denisova

w0097: Deregulation of Business

Evgeny Yakovlev and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

w0096: Inference about predictive ability when there are many predictors

Stanislav Anatolyev

w0095: Modeling Financial Return Dynamics by Decomposition

Stanislav Anatolyev and Nikolay Gospodinov

w0094: State Capture: From Yeltsin to Putin

Evgeny Yakovlev and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

w0093: State Capture in a Federation

Evgeny Yakovlev and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

w0092: Dynamic modeling under linear-exponential loss

Stanislav Anatolyev

w0091: Dictators, Repression and the Median Citizen: An “Eliminations Model” of Stalin’s Terror (Data from the NKVD Archives)

Paul Gregory, Philipp J.H. Schröder and Konstantin Sonin

w0090: Coalition Formation in Political Games

Daron Acemoglu, Georgy Egorov and Konstantin Sonin

w0089: Estimation of Individual Demand for Alcohol

Yuriy Andrienko and A. Nemtsov

w0088: Discretionary Bonuses as a Feedback Mechanism

Anton Suvorov and Jeroen van de Ven

w0087: Human Capital and Political Business Cycles

Akhmed Akhmedov

w0086: Adjustment Costs of Trade Liberalization: Estimations for the Russian Labor Market

Akhmed Akhmedov, Evgenia Bessonova, Ivan Cherkashin, Irina A. Denisova and Elena Grishina

w0084: Poverty Is No Crime: Measuring Poverty in Russian Regions

Irina A. Denisova and Marina Kartseva

w0083: Can Oil Prices Explain the Real Appreciation of the Russian Ruble in 1998-2005?

Kirill Sosunov and Oleg A. Zamulin (Kirill Sossounov)

w0082: The Inflationary Consequences of Real Exchange Rate Targeting via Accumulation of Reserves

Kirill Sosunov and Oleg A. Zamulin (Kirill Sossounov)