Reform of Fiscal Federalism in Russia: Budget Constraints at the Subnational Level of Government and Subnational Fiscal Behavior

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Main results of the project:
Extension of the fiscal behavior and fiscal redistribution models we built earlier for the period of 2001-2003;
Analysis of the soft budget constraint problem as applied to subnational governments behavior, its factors, effects etc.;
Analysis of the soft budget constraint problem in different countries;
Analysis of theoretical models of subnational budget constraints and empirical estimates for different countries.