Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/212574 
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Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
BOFIT Discussion Papers No. 2/2006
Publisher: 
Bank of Finland, Institute for Economies in Transition (BOFIT), Helsinki
Abstract: 
During the Soviet period industrial firms not only formed the backbone of the economy but also directly provided a wide range of benefits to their municipalities.Firms were in charge of supplying a great variety of social services, such as housing, medical care and day care.The need to divest at least some of these functions was generally accepted already in the early 1990s.Industrial firms' engagement in the provision of infrastructure services, such as heating, electricity and road upkeep has to date received much less attention.Using a unique dataset of 404 large and medium-sized industrial enterprises in 40 regions of Russia, this paper examines public infrastructure provision by Russian industrial enterprises.We find that, first, to a large degree engagement in infrastructure provision - as proxied by district heating production - is a Soviet legacy.Second, firms providing district heating to users outside their plant area are more likely to have close relations with the local public sector along many other dimensions.
Subjects: 
Russia
infrastructure
firm performance
JEL: 
P31
P35
H54
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ISBN: 
952-462-813-9
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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