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Frisch prosjekt: 5102 - The Russian Economic and Fiscal Crisis: A collective failure of the imagination
Rent Grabbing and Russia's Economic Collapse
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Authors:
Chand, Sheetal and Karl Ove Moene
Year:
1999
Reference:
Memorandum
Number in series: 25
Summary
Focussing on transition dynamics, we contrast early expectations for a welfare promoting market economy in Russia and their adverse realizations. A model is set up to show how initial conditions and reform policies can stimulate undesirable rent grabbing behavior. In the path dependant processes of the model, a “dishonesty multiplier” may result, leading to a sustained adverse outcome. Conventional policies to overcome this outcome are found to be ineffective. Instead, restoring a beneficial path requires policies that redirect incentives in a more acceptable direction.
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Oppdragsgiver: Norges forskningsrådOppdragsgivers prosjektnr.:
Frisch prosjekt: 5102 - The Russian Economic and Fiscal Crisis: A collective failure of the imagination
Contact:
s.k.chand@econ.uio.no k.o.moene@econ.uio.no