X RESEARCH CONFERENCE
"RUSSIAN ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS IN TRANSITION"
(abstracts)

November, 1 - 2 - 3, 2001

Nakhimovsky Prospect 47, 117418 Moscow,
129-3236, 129- 3722 / 3911

10:20 – 11:20, room 521

Project leader: Judith Shapiro

Chairman: Sergei Shishkin

1. Gennady Kassian and Judith Shapiro: Mortality in Transition Economies: new evidence of panel data?

Discussant: Vladimir Shkolnikov

11:20 - 11:40, room 520

11:40 – 13:00, room 521

Capital Expenditures Financing in Russia (abstracts)

Project leaders: Stanislav Anatolyev, Galina Ovtcharova

Chairman: Barry Ickes

1. Stanislav Anatolyev, Galina Ovtcharova, Dmitriy Spryskov: Financing of Capital Expenditures in Russia
2. Stanislav Anatolyev, Andrei Vasnev: A Markov Chain Approach to Bootstrap Resampling in Time Series Models

Discussant: Oleg Zamulin

14:10 – 15:30, room 521

Russian Labor Market Policies (abstracts)

Project leaders: Irina Denisova

Chairman: Vladimir Gimpelson

1. Irina Denisova: The Registered Unemployed: who are they? (Voronezh province case)
2. Yulia Khaleeva: Labour Market Segmentation and Higher Education

Discussant: Judith Shapiro

15:30 - 15:40, room 520

15:40 - 17:00, room 521

The Economics of Climate Change (abstracts)

Project leaders: Oleg Eismont, Claudia Kemfert

Chairman: Stanislav Anatolyev

1. Oleg Eismont: Joint Implementation under Competition
2. Claudia Kemfert: International Kyoto Mechanisms in Russia the Impacts of Emissions Trading on the Russian Economy

Discussant: Renat Perelet

17:00 - 17:20, room 520

17:20 - 18:40, room 521

Trade Liberalization and its Effect on Russian Economy (abstracts)

Chairman: Maxim Boyko

2. Konstantin Kozlov, Danil Manaenkov: The Influence of Russian Firms with Foreign Participation on Export Activity in Russia: firm-level panel evidence

Discussant: Kirill Sosunov

11:00 - 12:20, room 521

Competition among Jurisdictions in Russian Federation (abstracts)

Project leader: Valery Makarov

Chairman: Barry Ickes

1. Valery Makarov, Alexander Dankov: Competition among Jurisdictions in Regions: comparative analysis of the influence of political instituting.
2. Galina Besstremyannaya: The Applicability of the Tiebout Hypothesis to Russian Jurisdictions
3. Sofia Revenko: Russian Federalism: Competitive or Not?

Discussant: Leonid Polischuk & Constantin Sonin

12:20 - 12:40, room 520

12:40 - 14:00, room 521

Determinants of Corporate Governance in Russian Firms (abstracts)

Project leaders: Sergei Guriev, David Brown

Chairman: Victor Polterovich

1. Sergei Guriev: Causes and Consequence of CEO Turnover in Listed Russian Firms
2. David Brown, John Earle: Privatization and Restructuring in Russia: New Evidence from Panel Data on Industrial Enterprises

Discussant: Boris Kuznetsov

14:00 - 15:30

15:30 - 16:00, room 521

The Market for Influence and Political Accountability in Transition Economies (abstracts)

Project leaders: Ariane Lambert-Mogiliansky, Leonid Polishchuk

Chairman: Mark Levin

1. Ariane Lambert-Mogiliansky: Political Accountability in Transition
2. Leonid Polishchuk: The Rule of Law and Political Influence: A Menu Action Approach
3. Alexander Tonis: Privileges for Enterprises: Efficient Discrimination or Room for Abuse?

Discussant: Alexander Vasin

16:40 - 17:00, room 520

17:00 -18:30, room 521

Chairman: Valery Makarov

Andrey Illarionov:
"To pay or not to pay: Alternative strategies for reducing the sovereign debt burden"
rus, pdf

Banks in Russia (abstracts)

Project leaders: Benjamin Bental, Alexei Medvedev, Kirill Sossunov

Chairman: Vladimir Popov

1. B. Bental / Kirill Sosunov: Do Banks Matter? A growth exercise using Russian data
2. Andrey Bobichev: Typical Strategies of Russian Banks in 1997 and 1998
3. Konstantin Styrin: The 1998 Financial Crisis and The Russian Banking Industry:has the GKO market crash made banks to lend more money to the real sector?
   

Discussant: Alexander Karminskiy

Causes and consequences of fiscal incentives in a transition economy (abstracts)

Project leader: Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

Chairman: Ben Bental

1. Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, Irina Slinko, Evgeniy Yakovlev: State Capture in Russian Regions and Municipalities
2. Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, Akhmed Akhmedov, Alexey Ravichev: Electoral Cycles: Populism vs Grabbing Hand. Evidence from Russian Regions

Discussant: David Brown

Evaluation of Tax Benefit Reforms (abstracts)

Project leaders: Anthony Shorrocks, Evsey Gurvich

Chairman: Giovanni Andica Cornia

1. Anthony Shorrocks: Tax-benefit microsimulation for Russia
2. Ekaterina Ponomareva: Impact of the Elimination Subsidies in the Communal Sector
3. Evsey Gurvich: The Distributional Impact of Pension Reform in Russia

Discussant: Alastair McAuley