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The multifaceted nature of federalism imposes its formation as a political, economic, social, and cultural institution. An analysis of the existing model of federal relations in modern Russia showed incompleteness of the institutional design of federalism. The article analyzes federalism as an economic institution, mostly affecting aspects of fiscal federalism. The reasons for the ineffectiveness of the existing Russian federal model are the high transaction costs and disfunctions of the institution. Institutional...