This paper presents and discusses new data on employment protection legislation (EPL) in the successor states of the former USSR - the CIS and Baltic states - over 25 years from 1985 to 2009. We use the OECD methodology (OECD EPL, version II) for assessing the strictness of national labor laws...

Why did some Soviet states devolve into violent secessionist rebellion while others broke apart without violence, in the early 1990s? Following the collapse of the USSR, fifteen countries peacefully gained de jure independence. Within ten of these countries ethnic minorities threatened further...

This paper analyses the recent boom-bust cycle in the housing markets of selected Former Soviet Union (FSU) countries. The analysis is based on a newly constructed database on house prices in the FSU countries. Our estimations suggest that house price developments can largely be explained by the...

This paper analyses the recent boom-bust cycle in the housing markets of selected Former Soviet Union (FSU) countries. The analysis is based on a newly constructed database on house prices in the FSU countries. Our estimations suggest that house price developments can largely be explained by the...

Electoral fraud has become an integral part of electoral competition both in established democracies and less-than-democratic regimes. In this paper I study electoral fraud in the non-democratic setting. First, I present evidence of fraud sustainability and growth over the lifetime of...

This study seeks to determine the extent to which countries of the former Soviet Union are "infected" by the Dutch Disease. We take a detailed look at the functioning of the trans-mission mechanism of the Dutch Disease, i.e. the chains that run from commodity prices to real output in...

В статье выявлены предпосылки валютно-финансовой интеграции в постсоветском пространстве. Представлена авторская классификация таких предпосылок, включающая...

Предприняты попытки охарактеризовать особенности становления российских транснациональных корпораций (ТНК), выявить их роль в социально-экономическом...