Explaining Russia's Output Collapse: Aggregate Sources and Regional Evidence

February 1, 2001

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Irina Dolinskaya, and Irina Tytell. Explaining Russia's Output Collapse: Aggregate Sources and Regional Evidence, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2001) accessed November 21, 2024

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Summary

This paper explores sources of the output collapse in Russia during transition. A modified growth accounting framework is developed that takes into account changes in factor utilization typical of the transition process. The results indicate that declines in factor inputs and productivity were both important determinants of the output fall. The contribution of the productivity drop was critical, but smaller than previously reported. Possible causes of the reduction in productivity are assessed using data on sub-national regions within Russia. Privatization and entry of private firms are found to have generated productivity gains, while lack of exit of unviable enterprises constituted a drag on efficiency.

Subject: Economic growth, Growth accounting, Labor, Labor share, Production, Productivity, Total factor productivity

Keywords: Capital input, Capital share, Capital stock, Eastern Europe, Factor shares assumption, Growth, Growth accounting, Labor growth, Labor share, Private sector, Production function, Productivity, Productivity drop, Productivity effect, Total factor productivity, Transition, WP

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33
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Working Paper No. 2001/016
Stock No:

WPIEA0162001
ISBN:

9781451843408
ISSN:

1018-5941

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