Accounting for Growth in Post-Soviet Russia

Daniel Berkowitz and David N. DeJong and Daniel Berkowitz and David N. DeJong
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Daniel Berkowitz and David N. DeJong ()

No 256, William Davidson Institute Working Papers Series from William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross Business School

Abstract: In pursuit of its transition from a command to a market economy, post-Soviet Russia has witnessed enormous regional differences in economic growth rates. Moreover, the economic reforms implemented under this transition, while initiated at the federal level, have also differed markedly across regions, as regional governments have had considerable discretion over the implementation of reform policies in their jurisdictions. We exploit these differences in analyzing whether regional differences in reform policies can account for regional differences in growth rates, and conclude that to a considerable degree, they can. Most notably, we find that local-government privatization initiatives and regional-government initiatives to gain control over their capital stock (e.g. plants, equipment, machinery and social infrastructure) exhibit close correspondence with the formation of new legal enterprises, which in turn exhibits close correspondence with economic growth.

Keywords: optimal taxation; tax evasion; organized crime (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H26 H21 P51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Working Paper: Accounting for Growth in Post-Soviet Russia (1998)
Journal Article: Accounting for growth in post-Soviet Russia (2002)
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