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Working Papers

2025

1. Streetlight Effect in Corruption Measurement: Theory and Application to Russian Traffic Police
   CAEPR Working Papers, Center for Applied Economics and Policy Research, Department of Economics, Indiana University Bloomington

2024

2. Ownership, Asymmetric Information, and Quality of Care for the Elderly: Evidence from US Nursing Homes During the COVID-19 Pandemic
   CAEPR Working Papers, Center for Applied Economics and Policy Research, Department of Economics, Indiana University Bloomington

2021

3. Statistical footprints of corruption: Vanity Fair of automobile license plates in Russia
   Working Papers of Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Belgium, Ghent University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

2019

4. Institutions and the Allocation of Talent: Evidence from Russian Regions
   CAEPR Working Papers, Center for Applied Economics and Policy Research, Department of Economics, Indiana University Bloomington View citations (1)

2015

5. Costs and Benefits of Land Ownership: The Case of Russian Firms
   HSE Working papers, National Research University Higher School of Economics View citations (1)
6. Institutions and Visa Regimes
   HSE Working papers, National Research University Higher School of Economics

2014

7. uling Elites' Rotation and Asset Ownership: Implications for Property Rights
   Working Papers, Leibniz Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung (Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies)
   Also in HSE Working papers, National Research University Higher School of Economics (2013) View citations (2)
   See also Journal Article Ruling elites’ rotation and asset ownership: implications for property rights, Public Choice, Springer (2015) View citations (12) (2015)

2012

8. Institutions and the Allocation of Talent
   HSE Working papers, National Research University Higher School of Economics View citations (5)

2010

9. Misuse of Institutions: Lessons from Transition
   WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)
10. Performance assessment of Russian homeowners associations: The importance of being social
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany

1996

11. Input Markets Development, Property Rights, and Extra-Market Redistribution
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
12. Russian Federalism: Economic Reform and Political Behavior
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences

Journal Articles

2024

1. Institutions, abilities, and the allocation of talent: Evidence from Russian regions
   Journal of Comparative Economics, 2024, 52, (1), 271-296 View citations (1)

2022

2. Authoritarian Cooptation of Civil Society: The Case of Belarus
   Europe-Asia Studies, 2022, 74, (1), 1-30

2021

3. Institutions and social capital in group lending
   Russian Journal of Economics, 2021, 7, (4), 269-296
4. Managing Collective Action: Government-Sponsored Community Initiatives in Russia
   Europe-Asia Studies, 2021, 73, (6), 1176-1209

2019

5. Chronicles of a democracy postponed: Cultural legacy of the Russian transition
   The Economics of Transition, 2019, 27, (1), 99-137 View citations (5)
6. Quality of Institutions and the Allocation of Talent: Cross‐National Evidence
   Kyklos, 2019, 72, (4), 527-569 View citations (8)

2017

7. Political Economy of Institutions and Development: The Importance of Being Inclusive. Reflection on "Why Nations Fail" by D. Acemoglu and J. Robinson. Part I. Institutions and Economic Development. Institutional Choice
   Journal of the New Economic Association, 2017, 34, (2), 12-38 View citations (6)
8. Political Economy of Institutions and Development: The Importance of Being Inclusive. Reflection on "Why Nations Fail" by D. Acemoglu and J. Robinson. Part II. Institutional Change and Implications for Russia
   Journal of the New Economic Association, 2017, 35, (3), 12-32 View citations (4)

2015

9. How (not) to measure Russian regional institutions
   Russian Journal of Economics, 2015, 1, (2), 154-181 View citations (12)
10. Ruling elites’ rotation and asset ownership: implications for property rights
    Public Choice, 2015, 162, (1), 159-182 View citations (12)
    See also Working Paper uling Elites' Rotation and Asset Ownership: Implications for Property Rights, Working Papers (2014) (2014)

2014

11. Collective management of residential housing in Russia: The importance of being social
    Journal of Comparative Economics, 2014, 42, (3), 609-629 View citations (5)
12. Observe or Violate: Intrinsic Motivation of Academic Ethics
    Journal of the New Economic Association, 2014, 22, (2), 41-72 View citations (1)

2013

13. Endogenous contest success functions: a mechanism design approach
    Economic Theory, 2013, 52, (1), 271-297 View citations (31)

2011

14. New Institutional Economics: A state-of-the-art review for economic sociologists
    economic sociology. perspectives and conversations, 2011, 13, (1), 12-21 View citations (2)

2010

15. Collective Reputation in Higher Education: An Equilibrium Model
    Journal of the New Economic Association, 2010, (7), 46-69 View citations (2)
16. Stochastic frontier in non-profit associations’ performance assessment (the case of homeowners’ associations)
    Applied Econometrics, 2010, 20, (4), 75-101 View citations (4)

2008

17. Misuse of Institutions: Patterns and Causes
    The Journal of Comparative Economic Studies (JCES), 2008, 4, 57-80 View citations (10)

2006

18. Federalism and Russia’s economic development
    Journal "Region: Economics and Sociology", 2006, 2

2005

19. Quality of Higher Education in Russia: Role of Competition and Job Market
    Voprosy obrazovaniya / Educational Studies Moscow, 2005, (1), 70-86 View citations (2)

2004

20. Spontaneous (non)emergence of property rights
    The Economics of Transition, 2004, 12, (1), 103-127 View citations (50)

2002

21. Reform of Economic Education in Russia: Needs, Resources, Motivation
    Voprosy Ekonomiki, 2002, 7

1998

22. The Russian Model of "Bargaining Federalism" (Political and Economic Analysis)
    Voprosy Ekonomiki, 1998, 6 View citations (1)

1995

23. Robber Barons and Economic Efficiency: The Case of Spontaneous Privatization
    Mathematical Social Sciences, 1995, 30, (3), 320-320