The spatial aspect of political-economic transformation in the former Soviet Union - including the relations between new independent states and the center-region relations within national borders - has a heavy impact on the quality of institutions comprising the economic order. The paper...

The paper approaches the problem of differentiation of strategies implemented by individual countries in the institutional competition for foreign investments by looking at the experience of Kazakhstan. It basically focuses on the contradiction between political bias and political survival...

The paper compares the development of two institutional systems organizing the intergovernmental relations in the former Soviet Union: Russian federalism and post-Soviet regional integration. In spite of common origins, random selections of actors and common development trends in the first...

The paper confronts different aspects of decentralization: fiscal decentralization, post-constitutional regulatory decentralization, and constitutional decentralization – using a single dataset from Russian Federation of the Yeltsin period as a politically asymmetric country. It finds...

The paper considers the interaction of regional economic integration within the post-Soviet space and integration projects in Asia. It provides a detailed account of existing structures and institutions, looks at possible complementarities and substitute relations between these two groups of...

The paper provides an extremly simple model of the interaction of international and internal conflicts. However, unlike the dominant approach in the literature, which looks at these two types of conflicts as substitutes in terms of investments of agents, this paper analyzes the situation when...

The paper looks at development and emergence of offshore jurisdictions as a strategy in global tax competition. It discusses the general logic of tax competition in international economy, specifics of offshors as participants of this competition and impact of interjurisdictional competition on...