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Russia's 1999–2000 election cycle and the politics-banking interface
(01.11.2017)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 17/2017
BOFIT Discussion Papers 17/2017
We investigate whether lending by the dominant Russian state bank, Sberbank, contributed to Vladimir Putin’s ascent to power during the presidential elections of March 2000. Our hypothesis is that Sberbank corporate loans ...
Firms and social policy preferences under weak institutions : Evidence from Russia
(23.02.2018)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 7/2018
BOFIT Discussion Papers 7/2018
When does business support the expansion of social policy in the developing world? Existing work on managers’ preferences has tended to concentrate on the developed world, where governments can credibly commit to policy, ...
Erosion of state power, corruption control, and political stability
(25.02.2020)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 5/2020
BOFIT Discussion Papers 5/2020
How do corruption and the state apparatus interact, and how are they connected to the political and economic dimensions of state capacity? Motivated by historians' analysis of powerful empires, we build a model that ...
Elections, protest and trust in government: A natural experiment from Russia
(18.08.2016)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 9/2016
BOFIT Discussion Papers 9/2016
How do flawed elections and post-election protest shape political attitudes? Taking advantage of the largely exogenous variation in the timing of a survey conducted in Moscow, we examine the short-term impact of the ...
The political scar of epidemics
(27.06.2020)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 14/2020
BOFIT Discussion Papers 14/2020
What will be political legacy of the Coronavirus pandemic? We find that epidemic exposure in an individual’s “impressionable years” (ages 18 to 25) has a persistent negative effect on confidence in political institutions ...
Political cycles and bank lending in Russia
(25.03.2020)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 8/2020
BOFIT Discussion Papers 8/2020
State-owned banks tend to increase lending before elections for the purpose of boosting the reelection odds of incumbent politicians. We employ monthly data on individual banks to study whether Russian banks increased their ...
Growing up under Mao and Deng : On the ideological determinants of corporate policies
(27.08.2020)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 20/2020
BOFIT Discussion Papers 20/2020
Economic activities have always been organized around certain ideologies, yet little is known about how ideology shapes corporate behavior and how it is different from other political forces. We investigate the impact of ...
How do individual politicians affect privatization? Evidence from China
(01.09.2020)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 21/2020
BOFIT Discussion Papers 21/2020
This paper investigates how politicians’ patronage connections affect privatizations in China. The connections to top political leaders (i.e., Central Committee of the Communist Party of China) make local politicians engage ...
Politically motivated intergovernmental transfers in Russia : The case of the 2018 FIFA World Cup
(29.01.2021)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 2/2021
BOFIT Discussion Papers 2/2021
This paper studies the distribution of politically motivated intergovernmental transfers in Russia focusing on the case of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. It investigates what factors have accounted for the selection of the 2018 ...
The failure of Chinese peer-to-peer lending platforms : Finance and politics
(15.12.2020)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 27/2020
BOFIT Discussion Papers 27/2020
We investigate the influence of financial and political factors on peer-to-peer (P2P) platform failures in China’s online lending market. Using a competing risk model for platform survival, we show that large platforms, ...