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w0151: Imperfect competition in financial markets and capital structure

Sergei Guriev and Dmitriy Kvasov

w0150: Duration and Term Structure of Trade Agreements

Sergei Guriev and Mikhail Klimenko

w0149: Media and Political Persuasion: Evidence from Russia

Ruben Enikolopov, Maria Petrova and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

w0148: Politicians, Bureaucrats and Targeted Redistribution: The Role of Career Concerns

Ruben Enikolopov

w0147: Property Rights and Internal Migration: The Case of the Stolypin Agrarian Reform in the Russian Empire

Eugenia Chernina, Paul Castañeda Dower and Andrei Markevich

w0146: Great War, Civil War, and Recovery: Russia’National Income, 1913 to 1928

Andrei Markevich and Mark Harrison

w0145: Persistent anti-market culture: A legacy of the Pale of Settlement and of the Holocaust

Irena Grosfeld, Alexander Rodnyansky and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

w0144: Mass Media and Special Interest Groups

Maria Petrova

w0143: Everyone Hates Privatization, but Why? Survey Evidence from 28 Post-Communist Countries

Irina Denisova, Markus Eller, Timothy Frye and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

w0142: Why Less Informed Managers May Be Better Leaders

Sergei Guriev and Anton Suvorov

w0141: Federalism in Russia

Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

w0140: Perfect Implementation

Sergei Izmalkov, Matt Lepinski and Silvio Micali

w0139: On Effciency of the English Auction

Oleksii Birulin and Sergei Izmalkov

w0138: Investor Sentiments

Sergei Izmalkov and Muhamet Yildiz

w0137: Evolution of Risk and Political Regimes

Maria Petrova and Robert Bates

w0136: Directional Prediction of Returns under Asymmetric Loss: Direct and Indirect Approaches

Stanislav Anatolyev and Natalia Kryzhanovskaya

w0135: Russian Attitudes Toward the West

Sergei Guriev, Maxim Trudolyubov and Aleh Tsyvinski

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

w0130: Russia’s Real National Income: The Great War, Civil War, and Recovery, 1913 to 1928

Andrei Markevich and Mark Harrison

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 Zamulin