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Inter-regional Insurance and Redistribution – A Non-parametric Application to Russia

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  • Simo Lepp&aauml;nen

    (Center for Markets in Transition, Aalto University School of Economics, Lapuankatu 6 (Helsinki), P.O. Box. 21230, 00076 AALTO, Finland.)

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The paper examines inter-regional insurance and redistribution of Russia's fiscal system from 1995 to 2007. We use non-parametric methods for robustness and to tackle econometric problems of endogeneity and poolability. We will also use several specifications of variables. We find that the Russian inter-regional insurance system should be considered a stabilizing scheme against tax income and budget expenditure shocks, rather than against gross product or population income shocks, as typically assumed in literature considering data of other countries. Furthermore, we find evidence that the differences in the insurance estimates are mainly due to Federation-wide policy changes rather than a result of asymmetric treatment of regions.

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  • Simo Lepp&aauml;nen, 2012. "Inter-regional Insurance and Redistribution – A Non-parametric Application to Russia," Comparative Economic Studies, Palgrave Macmillan;Association for Comparative Economic Studies, vol. 54(3), pages 633-660, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:compes:v:54:y:2012:i:3:p:633-660
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