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Was Stalin necessary for Russia’s economic development?

История, Экономика

Автор: Гуриев Сергей Маратович

Год: 2013

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Аннотация

This paper studies structural transformation of Soviet Russia in 1928-1940 from an agrarian to an industrial
economy through the lens of a two-sector neoclassical growth model. We construct a large dataset
that covers Soviet Russia during 1928-1940 and Tsarist Russia during 1885-1913. We use a two-sector
growth model to compute sectoral TFPs as well as distortions and wedges in the capital, labor and
product markets. We find that most wedges substantially increased in 1928-1935 and then fell in 1936-1940
relative to their 1885-1913 levels, while TFP remained generally below pre-WWI trends. Under the
neoclassical growth model, projections of these estimated wedges imply that Stalin's economic policies
led to welfare loss of -24 percent of consumption in 1928-1940, but a +16 percent welfare gain after
1941. A representative consumer born at the start of Stalin's policies in 1928 experiences a reduction
in welfare of -1 percent of consumption, a number that does not take into account additional costs
of political repression during this time period. We provide three additional counterfactuals: comparison
with Japan, comparison with the New Economic Policy (NEP), and assuming alternative post-1940
growth scenarios.