Political Origins and Implications of the Economic Crisis in Russia

Guriev, SG (2015) Political Origins and Implications of the Economic Crisis in Russia. In: Putin's Russia. American Enterprise Institute, pp. 8-35.

Abstract

In this paper Sergei Guriev focuses on the postcrisis slowdown, which mushroomed into the current crisis. The goal is to explain the origins of the slowdown, understand its political implications, and analyze its interaction with the 2014 crisis in Crimea and eastern Ukraine.