Russia's Billionaires

Daniel Treisman

American Economic Review, 2016, vol. 106, issue 5, 236-41

Abstract: Using data collected by Forbes since the 1990s, I examine the emergence and survival of the super-wealthy in Russia over the past two decades and compare Russia's record to those of other countries. The major surge in the number of Russian billionaires came in the mid-2000s, mirroring the dynamic worldwide. While early billionaires were predominantly found in the oil, gas, metals, and banking sectors, the distribution has become more diverse, now including some in trade, real estate, chemicals, and information technology. Only a minority of today's Russian billionaires acquired significant assets in the privatization of the 1990s.

JEL-codes: D14 D31 L33 P23 P36 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
Note: DOI: 10.1257/aer.p20161068
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (13)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.p20161068 (application/pdf)
https://www.aeaweb.org/aer/data/10605/P2016_1068_data.zip (application/zip)
https://www.aeaweb.org/aer/app/10605/P2016_1068_app.pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.aeaweb.org/aer/ds/10605/P2016_1068_ds.zip (application/zip)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:aea:aecrev:v:106:y:2016:i:5:p:236-41

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.aeaweb.org/journals/subscriptions

Access Statistics for this article

American Economic Review is currently edited by Esther Duflo

More articles in American Economic Review from American Economic Association Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Michael P. Albert ().