| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP8221 |
| DP8221 M-form hierarchy with poorly-diversified divisions: a case of Khrushchev?s reform in Soviet Russia | |
| Ekaterina Zhuravskaya; Andrei Markevich | |
| 发表日期 | 2011-02-01 |
| 出版年 | 2011 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We test the premise of the theoretical literature that M-form political hierarchies are effective in creating yardstick competition between regional divisions only when divisions have sufficiently diversified or similar industrial composition. The reason is that the competition among poorly-diversified inter-related divisions creates incentives for regional leaders to pursue policies that hurt growth of the neighboring regions in order to make their own region look better from the point of view of the center. We use a unique episode in Soviet history, when a traditional Soviet unitary-form (U-form) hierarchy was replaced by a multidivisional-form (M-form) organization, namely, the Khrushchev?s 'Sovnarkhoz' reform. First, we demonstrate that during this reform regional leaders were subjected to relative performance evaluation which created career concerns to generate industrial growth. Second, we show that these career concerns resulted in higher growth in regions with sufficiently diversified and, therefore, self-contained economies and resulted in lower growth in highly specialized regions. |
| 主题 | Development Economics ; Public Economics |
| 关键词 | Diversification M-form hierarchy Soviet economy Yardstick competition |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp8221 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/537058 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Ekaterina Zhuravskaya,Andrei Markevich. DP8221 M-form hierarchy with poorly-diversified divisions: a case of Khrushchev?s reform in Soviet Russia. 2011. |
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