ANDREY YUSHKOV
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Research

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
  • Yushkov, Andrey, and Kathleen Gergely. 2025. "Carrots and sticks of authoritarian federalism: Fiscal incentives of elected and appointed governors in Russia." Publius: The Journal of Federalism (advance online publication).
  • Yushkov, Andrey. 2025. "Local income taxes and county-level migration: New evidence from Indiana and Maryland." National Tax Journal (advance online publication).
  • Yushkov, Andrey, Michael Alexeev, and Ivan Dedyukhin. 2024. "Local fiscal health in Russia: An Achilles' heel of fiscal federalism?" International Journal of Public Administration (advance online publication).
  • Yushkov, Andrey, and Michael Alexeev. 2024. "Russian regions in wartime: Fiscal and economic effects of the Russo-Ukrainian war." Post-Soviet Affairs, 40 (4), 313-325.
  • Johnson, Craig L., and Andrey Yushkov. 2023. "On the determinants of regional government debt in Russia." Eurasian Geography & Economics, 64 (4), 484-522.
  • Alexeev, Michael, and Andrey Yushkov. 2022. "The fiscal impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on subnational governments: The case of Russia." Public Finance Review, 50 (3), 239-278.
  • Yushkov, Andrey, Nina Oding, and Lev Savulkin. 2017. "Intergovernmental relations in Russia: Still a pendulum?" Public Administration Issues, 5, 38-59.
  • Yushkov, Andrey. 2015. "Fiscal decentralization and regional economic growth: Theory, empirics, and the Russian experience." Russian Journal of Economics, 1 (4), 404-418.

Book Chapters and Policy Papers
  • Selection of policy briefs and blog posts published at the Tax Foundation: see here.
  • Johnson, Craig, Andrey Yushkov, and Luis Navarro. 2023. "The structure of county government debt from 2002 to 2020: The financial crisis, the Great Recession, and the COVID-19 pandemic." In: Johnson, C., Moldogaziev, T., and Ross, J. (editors). Research Handbook on City and Municipal Finance. Edward Elgar Publishing, 319-334.
  • Yushkov, Andrey. 2022. "Federalism-preserving markets." In: Candela, R., Collins, K., and Coyne, C. (editors). Market Process and Market Order. Rowman & Littlefield, 17-40.
  • Yushkov, Andrey. 2020. "Regional public finance in Russia in 2012-2019." Russian Analytical Digest, 262, 17-22.
  • Maslova, Svetlana, and Andrey Yushkov. 2017. "PPP development in Russia: Overview of current trends and transport case studies." In: Mouraviev, N., Kakabadse, N. (editors). Public-Private Partnerships in Transitional Nations: Policy, Governance, and Praxis. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 59-85.

Under Review
  • Heim, Bradley, and Andrey Yushkov. "Estimating the effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on self-employment: Evidence from survey data." 
  • Shybalkina, Iuliia, and Andrey Yushkov. "Examining the ripples: Federal aid and state support of local governments."​

Work in Progress
  • Yushkov, Andrey. "Estimating the soft budget constraint in a federation."
  • Yushkov, Andrey. "The effects of changes in state credit ratings on local borrowing."​
  • Yushkov, Andrey. "The impact of natural resource revenue centralization on regional economic incentives."
  • Yushkov, Andrey, and Kathleen Gergely. "Loyalty vs competence revisited: Political survival and economic performance of subnational executives under autocracy."
  • Johnson, Craig L., Andrey Yushkov, and Luis Navarro. "Short-term municipal debt and maturity structure changes during the COVID-19 pandemic."

My work in Russian and German has also been published in academic and policy journals (Voprosy Ekonomiki, Economic Policy, Terra Economicus, the Journal of the New Economic Association, Russland-Analysen).

You can find a link to my Google Scholar page here.


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