"Variable group and name";"Additional definition";"Descriptive statistics";Source
;;mean;s.d;median;max.;min.;
"Firm entry and exit variables"
"Log of firm entry";"Log of number of newly established firms per 1,000 organizations";4.50;0.21;4.50;5.52;3.57;"Rosstat (http://www.gks.ru/)"
"Log of firm exit";"Log of number of liqudated firms per 1,000 organizations";4.07;0.50;4.07;5.66;1.36;Rosstat
"Institutional variables"
"Log of duration of a lawsuit at a regional arbitration court (mean)";"Data during 2007–2011";4.26;0.22;4.23;5.53;3.80;"Dmitrieva et al. (2012)"
"Log of duration of a lawsuit at a regional arbitration court (median)";"Data during 2007–2011";4.04;0.19;4.07;4.68;3.37;"Dmitrieva et al. (2012)"
"Acceptance rate of petition by regional arbitration courts (%)";"Data in 2014";94.75;2.21;95.10;98.54;87.70;"Federal Arbitration court (http://www.arbitr.ru/)"
"Log of lawsuit application number to regional arbitration courts per 1,000 organization";"Data in 2014";5.96;0.41;5.92;7.04;5.02;"Federal Arbitration court (http://www.arbitr.ru/)"
"Expert criminal risk ranking";"Lagged 3 year moving average";43.19;21.48;43.33;87.00;1.33;"Expert rating agency (http://www.raexpert.ru/)"
"Economic integration variables"
"Log of world oil price";"Log of simple average of spot prices of Dated Brent, West Texas";4.51;0.18;4.58;4.65;4.12;"IMF Commodity Price Database(http://www.imf.org/external/np/res/commod/index.aspx/)"
;"Intermediate, and the Dubai Fateh computed using monthly data";;;;;
"Total trade in % of GRP";"Lagged 3 year moving average";23.85;21.33;17.27;133.93;0.03;Rosstat
"FDI inflow in % of GRP";"Lagged 3 year moving average";3.82;5.85;2.02;68.59;0.00;Rosstat
"Log of direct distance from Brussels";"Distance from region capital in kilometers";8.11;0.44;7.99;9.04;7.04;"Authors’ calculation"
"Control variables"
"GRP growth rate (%)";"Percent to previous year; lagged 3 year moving average";3.98;3.49;3.80;16.27;–7.27;Rosstat
"Log of number of credit organizations and their branches per 100,000 residents";"Lagged 3 year moving average";0.99;0.49;0.97;2.61;–2.48;Rosstat
"Log of number of PCs with internet connection per 100 workers";"Lagged 3 year moving average";2.48;0.50;2.54;3.90;0.29;Rosstat
"Log of number of firms and organizations per 10,000 residents";"Lagged 3 year moving average";5.49;0.40;5.49;6.95;4.20;Rosstat
"Log of population density";"Per km2; lagged 3 year moving";2.71;1.79;3.10;8.43;–2.65;Rosstat
;average;;;;;;
"Average temperature in January";"In centigrade; lagged 3 year moving average";–12.29;7.67;–10.87;1.40;–34.10;Rosstat
"Time trend dummy";"2008 = 0";3.00;2.00;3.00;6.00;0.00;"Authors’ calculation"