Institutions and the Emergence of Markets
— Transition in the Russian Forest Sector

A study performed in IIASA's Forestry Program

List of Publications

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IIASA Interim Reports — Case Studies in Eight Russian Regions:

  Initial Studies:

Carlsson, Lars (1997). Prerequisites for the Evolution of Markets. An Institutional Analysis of the Russian Forest Sector. In Sten Nilsson (ed.), Dialogue on Sustainable Development of the Russian Forest Sector, Vol. 1, IIASA Interim Report (IR-97-009). Laxenburg, Austria: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, April, pp. 143–145.

Carlsson, Lars and Mats-Olov Olsson, eds. (1998). Initial Analyses of the Institutional Framework of the Russian Forest Sector. IIASA Interim Report (IR-98-027). Laxenburg, Austria: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, June.

Malmlöf, Tomas (1998). The Institutional Framework of the Russian Forest Sector – A Historical Background. In: IR-98-027 (See link above!)

Lehmbruch, Barbara (1998). Ministerial Spin-Offs and Economic Transformation in the Russian Timber Industry, 1992–1996. In: IR-98-027 (See link above!)

Mashkina, Olga (1998). Measuring Attitudinal Diversity through Q-analysis – An Illustration of a Research Approach. In: IR-98-027 (See link above!)

  Tomsk Oblast:

Carlsson, Lars and Mats-Olov Olsson (1998). Institutions and the Emergence of Markets, Transition in the Tomsk Forest Sector. IIASA Interim Report (IR-98-084). Laxenburg, Austria: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, October. (Also available in Russian.)

Carlsson, Lars, Nils-Gustav Lundgren and Mats-Olov Olsson (1999). Forest Enterprises in Transition — Business Behavior in the Tomsk Forest Sector. IIASA Interim Report (IR-99-010). Laxenburg, Austria: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis. (Also available in Russian.)

  Arkhangelsk Oblast:

Carlsson, Lars, Nils-Gustav Lundgren, Mats-Olov Olsson and Mikhail Yu. Varakin. (1999). Institutions and the Emergence of Markets, Transition in the Arkhangelsk Forest Sector. IIASA Interim Report (IR-99-021). Laxenburg, Austria: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis. (Also available in Russian.)

Olsson, Mats-Olov (2006). Is the Russian Virtual Economy Coming to an End? Institutional Change in the Arkhangelsk Forest Sector. IIASA Interim Report (IR-06-048). Laxenburg, Austria: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, December.

  Khabarovsk Krai:

Efremov, Dmitry F., Lars Carlsson, Mats-Olov Olsson and Alexander S. Sheingauz (1999). Institutional Change in the Forest Sector of Khabarovsk Krai. IIASA Interim Report (IR-99-068). Laxenburg, Austria: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.

Mabel, Marian (2000). The Flexible Domestic State: Institutional Transformation and Political Economic Control in the Khabarovsk Krai Forestry Sector. Interim Report (IR-00-037). Laxenburg, Austria: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.

  Moscow Oblast:

Kleinhof, Andris E., Lars Carlsson and Mats-Olov Olsson (1999). The Forest Sector in Moscow Oblast. IIASA Interim Report (IR-99-069). Laxenburg, Austria: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis. (Also available in Russian).

  The Karelian Republic:

Piipponen, Minna (1999). Transition in the Forest Sector of the Republic of Karelia. Interim Report (IR-99-070). Laxenburg, Austria: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis. (This IR is also available in Russian.)

  Murmansk Oblast:

Ivanova, Lyudmila and Vigdis Nygaard (1999). Institutions and the Emergence of Markets Transition in the Murmansk Forest Sector. Interim Report (IR-99-071). Laxenburg, Austria: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, December. (This IR is also available in Russian.)

Jacobsen, Birgit (1999). Auctions Without Competition — The Case of Timber Sales in the Murmansk Region. IIASA Interim Report (IR-99-072). Laxenburg, Austria: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.

  Irkutsk Oblast:

Blam, Yuri, Lars Carlsson and Mats-Olov Olsson (1999). Institutions and the Emergence of Markets — Transition in the Irkutsk Forest Sector. IIASA Interim Report (IR-00-017). Laxenburg, Austria: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.

  Krasnoyarsk Krai:

Sokolova, Nastassia (2000). Institutions and the Emergence of Markets – Transition in the Krasnoyarsk Forest Sector. Interim Report (IR-00-028). Laxenburg, Austria: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis. (This IR is also available in Russian.)

  Summary Reports:

Carlsson, Lars, Nils-Gustav Lundgren, and Mats- Olov Olsson (2000). Why Is the Russian Bear Still Asleep after Ten Years of Transition?. IIASA Interim Report (IR-00-019). Laxenburg, Austria: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, March.

Policy Exercises:

Olsson, Mats-Olov (2001). Participatory Forest Policy Development - Experiences from a IIASA Policy Exercise in Tomsk, Russia. IIASA Interim Report (IR-01-061). Laxenburg, Austria: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, December.

Olsson, Mats-Olov (2004). Institutional Change in the Russian Forest Sector: Stakeholder Participation in Forest Policy Formulation in Murmansk, Karelia and Arkhangelsk. IIASA Interim Report (IR-04-030). Laxenburg, Austria: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, July.

IIASA Interim Reports on Other Institutional Issues:

Fell, Astrid (1999). On the Establishment of Trust in the Russian Forest Sector. IIASA Interim Report (IR-99-054). Laxenburg, Austria: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.

Pappila, Minna (1999). The Russian Forest Sector and Legislation in Transition. IIASA Interim Report (IR-99-058). Laxenburg, Austria: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.

Kallas, Aigar (2000). The Estonian Forest Sector in Transition: Institutions at Work. IIASA Interim Report (IR-00-073). Laxenburg, Austria: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.

Nysten-Haarala, Soili (2000). Development of Constitutionalism in Russia. IIASA Interim Report (IR-00-042). Laxenburg, Austria: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.

Nysten-Haarala, Soili (2001). Russian Enterprises and Company Law in Transition. IIASA Interim Report (IR-01-005). Laxenburg, Austria: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.

Nysten-Haarala, Soili (2001). The Russian Property Rights in Transition. IIASA Interim Report (IR-01-006). Laxenburg, Austria: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.

Vasenda, Sandra (2001). Waking the Russian Bear: Institutional Change in the Russian Forest Sector. Interim Report (IR-01-013). Laxenburg, Austria: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.

Nilsson, Sten (2001). Future Challenges to Ensure Sustainable Forest Management. IIASA Interim Report (IR-01-039). Laxenburg, Austria: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis. Also appears in the Proceedings of the workshop on "Forests and Forestry in Central and Eastern European Countries" on 12–14 September 2001 in Debe, Poland, organized by MCPFE – Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe and the Liaison Unit Vienna, Austria.

Wignall, Jim (2001). Evaluating the Russian Forest Sector: Market Orientation and Its Characteristics. IIASA Interim Report (IR-01-047). Laxenburg, Austria: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.

Kotova, Maria (2001). Institutional Traps of Russian Forest Enterprises – A Lawyer’s View. IIASA Interim Report (IR-01-062). Laxenburg, Austria: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.

Nilsson, Sten (2002). Supply Forecasts for Timber from the Russian Far East and Links with the Pacific Rim Market. IIASA Interim Report (IR-02-001). Laxenburg, Austria: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.

Olsson, Mats-Olov (2007). Assessing the Structural Prerequisites for an Efficient Russian Political Market. IIASA Interim Report (IR-07-037). Laxenburg, Austria: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, December.


Books:

Nysten-Haarala, Soili (2001). Russian Law in Transition: Law and Institutional Change. Helsinki: Kikimora Publications. Series B.

Olsson, Mats-Olov (2008). Continuity and Change: Institutions and Transition in the Russian Forest Sector. Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller.

Published Articles:

Carlsson, Lars (1998). Utan plats för individer (No Room for Individuals). Norrländska Socialdemokraten, September 15. (Newspaper article. In Swedish.)

Carlsson, Lars and Mats-Olov Olsson (1999). Den ryska skogssektorns institutionella inramning (The Institutional Embedding of the Russian Forest Sector). IIASA-Nytt, No. 30, March. Stockholm: The Swedish Council for Planning and Coordination of Research (FRN), pp. 6–7.

Lehmbruch, Barbara (1999). Fragmented Clientelism: The Transformation of Sectoral Economic Governance in the Russian Timber Industry. In: Vladimir Tikhomirov (ed.) Anatomy of the 1998 Russian Crisis. Carlton, Australia: Contemporary Europe Research Centre, University of Melbourne, pp. 238–258. (Based on the author’s contribution to IIASA Interim Report IR-98-027.)

Piipponen, Minna (1999). Transition in the Forest Sector of the Republic of Karelia, Russia. Fennia 177:2, pp. 185–233. Abstract. (Based on IIASA Interim Report IR-99-070.)

Carlsson, Lars (2000). ‘The Tragedy of the Commons’ and Global Environmental Problems. Minerals and Energy 15(1) pp.40–42.

Carlsson, Lars (2000). Towards a Sustainable Russian Forest Sector. Natural Resources Forum, Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 31–37.

Carlsson, Lars, Mats-Olov Olsson, and Nils-Gustav Lundgren (2000). If money only grew on trees - The Russian forest sector in transition., The Forestry Chronicle, Vol. 76, No. 4, July/August. (A Russian translation of the article can be downloaded here.)

Pappila, Minna (2000). The Russian Forest Sector and Legislation in Transition. Turku Law Journal, Vol. 2, No. 2. (Based IIASA Interim Report (IR-99-058).

Nilsson, Sten (2000). International Cooperation for Sustainable Development of the Russian Forest Sector. In: Final Report and Proceedings of the Expert Seminar "Sustainable Development of the Forest Sector in Northern Europe," Petrozavodsk, Russia, October 12–13, 1999, Barents Euro-Arctic Council. Working Group on Economic Cooperation. Joensuu: University of Joensuu, Faculty of Forestry, pp. 35–46.

Carlsson, L. (2001). Keeping Away from the Leviathan: The Case of the Swedish Forest Commons. Discussion Paper No 51. Published by the MOST Programme at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Paris: UNESCO.

Carlsson, Lars, Mats-Olov Olsson and Nils-Gustav Lundgren (2001). Состояние лесного сектора в России - отражение трудностей трансформирования экономики (The State of the Russian Forest Sector - a Reflection of the Difficulties of Transforming an Economy), Проблемы теории и практики управления (Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Management), No. 2, pp. 75-80. (This is an abridged version of an article by the same authors published in The Forestry Chronicle, Vol. 76, No. 4, July/August, pp. 605–610.)

Carlsson, Lars, Nils-Gustav Lundgren, and Mats-Olov Olsson (2001). The Russian Detour: Real Transition in a Virtual Economy? Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 53, No. 6, pp. 841-867.
(Note that this article was based on a previous IIASA Interim Report IR-00-019. See entry above!)

Carlsson, Lars (2001). Book Review: Business and The State in Contemporary Russia, ed. by Peter Rutland, Oxford and Boulder, CO: Westview Press. Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 53, No. 8, pp. 1255–1256.

Carlsson, Lars and Mats-Olov Olsson (2001). Policyövningar med ryska skogsintressenter (Policy Exercises with the Stakeholders of the Russian Forest Sector). IIASA-Nytt, No. 34, September. Stockholm: The Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (Formas), pp. 8–10.

Nilsson, Sten (2002). The Real Problem and Needs of Sustainable Development in the Russian North: An Analysis of the Forest Sector. In: A Common Approach to Collaborative Technological Research for Arctic Development. Proceedings of the Joint EU-Russia-Canada-US Workshop, Conference Centre Albert Borchette, Brussels, Belgium, 25–27 October 2001. pp 310–329.

Carlsson, Lars and Nils-Gustav Lundgren (2002). Den ryska skogssektorn på väg mot marknads­ekonomi? (The Russian Forest Sector Towards Market Economy?). In Persson, Gunnar (ed.), Människor, Hälsa, Miljö. Acta Philosophica Universitatis Lulensis, Luleå Studies in the Arts and Social Sciences 2. Luleå: Luleå Science Press, pp. 5–17.

Carlsson, Lars (2002). The Strategy of the Commons: History and Property Rights in Forestry in Central Sweden. In Fikret Berkes, Johan Colding, and Carl Folke (eds.), Navigating Social-Ecological Systems. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.116–131.

Kallas, Aigar (2002). Public forest policy making in post-Communist Estonia. Forest Policy and Economics, Vol. 4, Issue 4. December, pp. 323–332. (Note that this article was based on a previous IIASA Interim Report (IR-00-073). See entry above!)

Nilsson, Sten (2005). Experiences of policy reforms of the forest sector in transition and other countries. Forest Policy and Economics, Vol 7, Issue 6. November, pp 831– 847.

Olsson, Mats-Olov (2006). Systemic Interventions to Promote Institutional Change in the Russian Forest Sector. Review of Policy Research, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 505-530, March. (This article is based on a longer IIASA Interim Report (IR-04-030). See entry above!)

Olsson, Mats-Olov (2008). The Russian Virtual Economy Turning Real: Institutional Change in the Arkhangel’sk Forest Sector. Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 60, No. 5, July 2008, pp. 707–738.
(Note that this article was based on a previous IIASA Interim Report IR-06-048. See entry below!)

Olsson, Mats-Olov (2021). Changes in Market Behaviour among Russian Forest Enterprises. Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 73, No. 3, April, pp. 505-532. (Published online on 21 May 2020.)

Other Publications:

Malmlöf, Tomas (1999). Prospects for Ecological Sustainability in Russian Forestry; An Institutional and Historical Perspective. C/D Extended Essay 1999:02, Department of Business Administration and Social Science, Division of Political Science. Luleå: Luleå Technical University. (Based on the author’s contribution to IIASA Interim Report IR-98-027.)

Ivanova, Lyudmila and Vigdis Nygaard (2001). Policy Exercise for Stakeholders in the Forest Sector in the Murmansk Region. Working Paper 2001:106. Oslo: Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research (NIBR).

Olsson, Mats-Olov (2004). Barriers to Change? Understanding the Institutional Hurdles in the Russian Forest Sector. Licentiate Thesis in Political Science (2004:79). Luleå: Luleå University of Technology (203 pp.).

Olsson, Mats-Olov (2008). Continuity and Change: Institutions and Transition in the Russian Forest Sector. Doctoral Thesis in Political Science (2008:32). Luleå: Luleå University of Technology (253 pp.).

 


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