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ƒÒ-convergence and to pinpoint influential factors for economic growth across counties and cities. …
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During the Soviet period industrial firms not only formed the backbone of the economy but also directly provided a wide range of benefits to their municipalities. Firms were in charge of supplying a great variety of social services, such as housing, medical care and day care. The need to divest...
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(the agricultural club) show no evidence of convergence and appear to have been left behind in terms of economic …
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This empirical note uses publicly available Goskomstat data to investigate income growth and convergence across Russian … regions. Using data for 1992-2001, we find strong sigma divergence simultaneously with beta convergence. he results indicate …
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This paper analyzes the spatial structure of goods market integration in Russia, characterizing regions into three states: (a) integrated, (b) not integrated but trending toward integration, and (c) not integrated and not trending toward integration. Using time series of the cost of a staples...
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This is an empirical study of the real income convergence among the fifteen European Union members and the eleven …-section regression and dynamic panel data estimations. Most estimation methods find positive convergence, but estimated rates of … convergence vary considerably. …
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other studies on the same topic. The models tested are grounded in the law of one price. Price convergence is analysed with … univariate time series methods, where linear and non-linear cointegration models refer to convergence in the short run and in the …-linear trend variable in the model indicates whether there is movement towards integration in the long run. Convergence of prices …
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We examine the transition process from a centrally planned to a market-based monetary system in China, with the objective of giving a functional form to the transition in money demand. Applying the cointegrating Time-Varying Smooth Transition Regression model proposed by Choi and Saikkonen...
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This paper estimates the effect of institutions on economic performance using cross-city data from China. We argue that China's ongoing reforms are part of a long and circuitous historical transition from antiquity to modernity, which started about 150 years ago. Learning from Western countries...
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This paper studies the Balassa-Samuelson effect in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. Time series and panel cointegration techniques are used to show that the BS effect works reasonably well in these transition economies during the period 1991:Q1 to 2001:Q2. However,...
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