Reforming fiscal federalist relations in Russia

Lavrov, Aleksei; Litwack, John M.; Sutherland, Douglas

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“…Similarly, Lavrov et al (2001) claim that complicated informal agreements between regional administrations and the largest local enterprises have been the general rule during the 1990s. Such enterprises are subject to implicit taxation in the form of mandatory financing of local public services, e.g., health, education, housing, and road maintenance.…”

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Fiscal federalism in rentier regions: Evidence from Russia

Desai

Freinkman

Goldberg

2005

Journal of Comparative Economics

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Section: Rentier Experiences and Fiscal Autonomymentioning

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Fiscal federalism in rentier regions: Evidence from Russia

Desai

Freinkman

Goldberg

2005

Journal of Comparative Economics

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“…3 3 For the best available surveys of development of Russia's federalism see OECD (2000) and Lavrov et al (2001). Treisman (2000) provides aggregate data on dynamics of consolidated revenues and tax arrears. …”

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Federal tax arrears in Russia *Liquidity problems, federal redistribution or regional resistance?**

Ponomareva

Zhuravskaya

2004

Economics of Transition

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Three hypotheses about the nature of federal tax arrears in Russia in the second half of the 1990s are tested empirically. Tax arrears can be a result of: 1) liquidity problems in firms, 2) redistributive subsidies of the federal government, or 3) regional political resistance to federal tax collectors. Liquidity problems in firms explain a large part of the variation in tax arrears. Regional political resistance to federal tax collectors was also an important factor: For a given level of liquidity, federal arrears accumulated faster in regions where governors had a larger popular base, in regions with a better bargaining position vis-à-vis the centre, and in regions with governors in political opposition to the centre. We find that patterns of federal arrears are inconsistent with the redistributive politics premise that redistribution favours jurisdictions with 'closer races' for the incumbent in the national elections. Variation in authorized tax deferrals can be explained in part by federal redistributive politics.JEL classifications: H11, H26, R5, P26.

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“…Some authors discuss the appropriate institutional design of fiscal federalism in Russia: Lavrov et al (2001), Khristenko (2002), Kadochnikov et al (2002), Klimanov and Lavrov (2004), Shvetsov (2005), Yakobson (2006), Nazarov (2006), Grigoriev et al (2008), Bukhval'd (2008), Zubarevich (2014), and Alexeev (2016). Other authors focus on the challenges and outcomes of regional development in Russia, including Mau and Yanovskiy (2001), Granberg (2002), Pelyasov (2003), Alexandrova and Grishina (2005), Zubarevich (2009), Yushkov (2016, and Yushkov et al (2017b).…”

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Fiscal federalism and regional performance in Russia

Bella¹,

Dynnikova²,

Grigoli³

2018

RUJEC

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Sound regional policies are essential for balanced and sustained economic growth. The interaction of federal and regional policies with cross-regional structural differences affects human and physical capital formation, the business climate, private investment, market depth, and competition. This paper summarizes the main elements of Russia's fiscal federalism, describes the channels through which it operates, and assesses the effectiveness of regional transfers in reducing regional disparities. The results suggest that federal transfers to regions contributed to reducing disparities arising from heterogeneous regional tax bases and fiscal revenues. This allowed regions with initially lower per capita income to increase human and physical capital at higher rates. There is little evidence for transfers contributing to increased cross-regional growth synchronization. The results also suggest that federal transfers did not significantly improve regional fiscal sustainability, a conclusion that is supported by the lack of convergence in per capita real income across Russian regions in the last 15 years.

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Reforming fiscal federalist relations in Russia

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Fiscal federalism in rentier regions: Evidence from Russia

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