439 research outputs found
sj-docx-1-pfr-10.1177_10911421221097785 - Supplemental material for The Fiscal Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Subnational Governments: The Case of Russia
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-pfr-10.1177_10911421221097785 for The Fiscal Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Subnational Governments: The Case of Russia by Michael Alexeev and Andrey Yushkov in Public Finance Review</p
Income Distribution and Price Controls: Targeting a Social Safety Net During Economic Transition
No full textDuring the ongoing post-communist economic transitions, the relative well-being of many people is changing rapidly, and governments are not well positioned to accurately measure individual living standards. Under such circumstances, continued price controls over basic consumer goods within the state sector, and the associated queuing, can form a serviceable device for targeting poor people for subsidies. With a fixed-price state sector and free-price parallel markets, rich people might choose to avoid queues and shop in the free markets, while poor people would prefer to pay low nominal prices and queue in the state sector. The targeting of subsidies through queues, therefore, can be accomplished even if the government has no information on individual income or living standards. When the alternative to price controls is a poorly targeted explicit social safety net, the resource cost of queues might be more than compensated for by an improvement in the targeting of subsidies.price controls, tax evasion, queue-rationing, economic transition, income distribution
Data for: Does generalized trust depend on income?
No full textData and code used for my paper "Does generalized trust depend on income?"
Солитоны в обобщенной квантовой гидродинамике и теория шаровой молнии
No full textQuantum solitons are discovered with the help of generalized quantum hydrodynamics. The solitons have the character of the stable quantum objects in the self consistent electric field. The theory of quantum solitons lead to explanation of the existence of stable atom structures on the microscopic level and lightning balls on the macroscopic level of description of physical systems. The delivered theory demonstrates the great possibilities of the generalized quantum hydrodynamics in investigation of the quantum solitons. The paper can be considered also as comments and prolongation of the materials published in the known author`s monograph (Boris V. Alexeev, Generalized Boltzmann Physical Kinetics. Elsevier. 2004). The theory leads to solitons as typical formations in the generalized quantum hydrodynamics.Квантовые солитоны открыты с помощью обобщенной квантовой гидродинамики. Солитоны имеют характер стабильных квантовых объектов в самосогласованном электрическом поле. Теория квантовых солитонов приводит к объяснению существования стабильных атомов на микроскопическом уровне и шаровых молний на макроскопическом уровне описания физических систем. Разработанная теория демонстрирует большие возможности обобщенной квантовой гидродинамики в исследовании квантовых солитонов как типичных образований в обобщенной квантовой теории. Статья может также рассматриваться как продолжение исследований, изложенных в известной монографии автора (Boris V. Alexeev, Generalized Boltzmann Physical Kinetics. – Elsevier, 2004)
A Note on Measuring the Unofficial Economy in the Former Soviet Republics
No full textThis note argues that the most commonly used estimates of the size of the unofficial economies in the former Soviet republics are flawed. Most important, they are based on calculations that disregard the variation in unofficial economic activity across space in the pre-transition Soviet Union. In addition, these estimates appear to understate the size of the unofficial economies in these countries. We propose alternative estimates and find that they are more strongly related to the institutional factors commonly used to explain the size of the unofficial sector. Our estimates also show that the size of a country's pre-transition unofficial economy is an important predictor of its size during the transition. This suggests that the size of the unofficial economy is to a large extent a historical phenomenon only partly determined by contemporary institutional factors.A Note on Measuring the Unofficial Economy in the Former Soviet Republics
Online_appendix - Fiscal Decentralization, Budget Discipline, and Local Finance Reform in Russia’s Regions
No full textOnline_appendix for Fiscal Decentralization, Budget Discipline, and Local Finance Reform in Russia’s Regions by Michael Alexeev, Nikolay Avxentyev, Arseny Mamedov, and Sergey G. Sinelnikov-Murylev in Public Finance Review</p
Corruption and Product Market Competition: An Empirical Investigation
No full textWe analyze the relationship between product market competition and corruption. The
existing theoretical literature produces ambiguous implications for the sign of this
relationship, making it an empirical issue. Unlike the existing empirical studies that use cross-country data, we test the relationship between competition and corruption using firm-level information. This approach overcomes serious estimation difficulties that result from relying on cross-country data. Contrary to the existing work, we show that greater product market competition is typically associated with greater corruption.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/78009/1/ipc-103-alexeev-song-corruption-product-market-competition.pd
Decentralization, Corruption, and the Unofficial Economy
No full textWe analyze the implications of decentralization for the incentives of local governments to provide productivity enhancing local public goods and extort bribes from local entrepreneurs. We show that an increase in the share of locally raised tax revenue left with the local government raises its incentives to provide public goods and brings more entrepreneurs into the official economy. Corruption, measured by the size of bribes that local officials charge entrepreneurs for issuing licenses for operating officially, may increase or decrease, depending on the extent to which public goods enhance the entrepreneur’s productivity. The tests using cross-sectional country-level data support the model’s implications.decentralization, local public goods, corruption, unofficial economy
Solitons in the generalized quantum hydrodynamics and the theory of lightning balls
No full textQuantum solitons are discovered with the help of generalized quantum hydrodynamics. The solitons have the character of the stable quantum objects in the self consistent electric field. The theory of quantum solitons lead to explanation of the existence of stable atom structures on the microscopic level and lightning balls on the macroscopic level of description of physical systems. The delivered theory demonstrates the great possibilities of the generalized quantum hydrodynamics in investigation of the quantum solitons. The paper can be considered also as comments and prolongation of the materials published in the known author`s monograph (Boris V. Alexeev, Generalized Boltzmann Physical Kinetics. Elsevier. 2004). The theory leads to solitons as typical formations in the generalized quantum hydrodynamics
Replication Data for: Privatization
No full textReplication data for Privatization, a chapter in the Oxford Handbook of the Russian Economy (Michael Alexeev and Shlomo Weber, eds.), 2013
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