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The Unequal Enforcement of Liberalization: Evidence from Russia's Reform of Business Regulation

Journal of the European Economic Association
2011
  • 1
    Citations
  • 12,439
    Usage
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    Captures
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  • Citations
    1
    • Citation Indexes
      1
  • Usage
    12,439
    • Abstract Views
      11,325
    • Downloads
      1,114
  • Captures
    1
    • Readers
      1
      • SSRN
        1
  • Ratings
    • Download Rank
      39,337

Paper Description

We document unequal enforcement of liberalization reform of business regulation across Russian regions with different governance institutions which lead to unequal effects of liberalization. The enforcement of national liberalization laws was better in subnational regions with more transparent government, better informed population, closer monitoring by powerful industrial lobbies, and stronger fiscal autonomy. As a result, in better regions in terms of governance institutions, liberalization had a substantial positive effect on performance of small firms and growth of official small business sector. In contrast, in worse regions, we observe no effect of reform and, in some cases, even a negative effect.

Bibliographic Details

Evgeny Yakovlev; Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

Regulation; deregulation reform; business entry

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