The paper considers the impact of political institutions on economic growth applying the case of Russian regions in 2000-2004. First, it studies the influence of democracy on the economic performance, providing evidence for non-linear relation between democracy and economic growth. Regions with...

Abstract in Russian:Документ включает в себя подробное описание текущих внутренних и внешних макроэкономических условий, а также согласованный прогноз. Анализ...

The document contains a detailed description of the current domestic and external macroeconomic conditions, and a consistent set of forecasts. The analysis covers existing mutual links among six economies (Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan) and their key trading...

The document contains a detailed description of the current domestic and external macroeconomicconditions, and a consistent set of forecasts. The analysis covers existing mutual links among sixeconomies (Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan) and their key trading...

The paper provides a survey of theoretical and empirical literature on non-linear impact of democracy on economic growth. First, it looks at two main approaches to the non-linearity: the U-shape and the inverse U-shape. Then it proceeds by looking at the specifics of hybrid regimes and tries to...

This article considers the impact of sub-national political systems on economic growth by applying the case of Russian regions from 2000 to 2004. It investigates two dimensions of the sub-national systems. First, it studies the influence of democracy on economic performance, providing evidence...

A broad literature suggests that political regimes matter for the growth effect of natural resources. However, while several studies have concentrated on the difference between democracies and autocracies in this respect, an important topic overlooked so far is the differences between varieties...