INSTITUTIONAL ASPECTS OF THE ORIGIN OF THE RUSSIAN PROTECTIONISM: TRADE ADOPTION STATUTE IN 1653
The article deals with organizational,legal and economic factors making trade statute in 1653,which has hitherto been mentioned in historical and economic literature primarily as a document that started the process of systematization of taxation of trade. But the preconditions of its adoption, ie conditions for the birth of protectionism in Russia is not specifically addressed. On the basis of the provisions of the new institutional theory, it is shown that the competition of Russian and foreign merchants in the domestic market has become a way of understanding and accumulation of information necessary for tax reform that both the impetus to conduct a protectionist policy. Interaction between the government and the Russian and foreign merchants considered as «binding contracts», the benefits of which takes into account the transaction costs for the control of their execution, and violations as a way to increase competitiveness. The result of the study was to identify the complex regulations - Trade charter charters in 1654 and the Charter to Kiev, have provided an institutional environment protection and the emergence of a common economic space of Russia.