Using the latest data (2009) and one historic year (2000) from a Russian nationally representative household survey, a tobit demand model is estimated to examine influences on both the decision to smoke and the quantity of cigarettes bought by Russian women of working age over the past decade....

This article examines wages in rural Russia after the first decade of economic transition using data from a nationally representative household survey. The stochastic frontier analysis reveals that Russia's rural labour markets place high value on human capital. The overall level of rural wages,...

FDI in to the 10 counties of Lithuania is analyzed for the first time using new regional data now available for this small transition economy. At the county level, Lithuania appears to be exhibiting export led growth which is increasing business and household incomes despite a substantial number...

Foreign Direct Investment in the United States is analyzed using a stochastic production function with FDI as an input. Low but significant technical inefficiency is found across American states similar to earlier studies but now with FDI explicitly accounted for. FDI is found to have a low but...

Regional economic growth in Russia's regions in 1995-2000 is analyzed with particular attention paid to FDI and how it influenced growth during this period. FDI appears to have been essential before the 1998 crisis in helping the economy grow despite the initial chaos of the transition. Larger...

Applying a stochastic industrial production function at the aggregate city level for 72 cities in a single Russian region reveals industry in a variety of cities is quite similar in the ability to produce gross industrial output efficiently during the early transition era 1993-95. Weak evidence...

U.S. states during the 1977-1986 business cycle are found to have small but significant technical inefficiency in the private sector. Inefficiency is influenced by several factors, including prior economic performance, location, Hick labor augmenting technical progress in the manufacturing...

Scattered across Russia is an "archipelago" of cities whose existence until recently was not even indicated on maps. These are the ZATO (zakrytye administrativno-territorial'nye obrazovaniya) or closed cities

Using 1984-1989 firm level data from Vilnius, Lithuania, the industrial structure of a former Soviet city is examined for the first time. A combination of two panel data stochastic frontier methods is used to derive indices of relative technical inefficiency of firms within several branches in...

Panel data collected recently in Irkutsk Province show that significant technical inefficiency existed across industrial branches between 1970-1991. Technical inefficiency is much more widely dispersed across branches than has been previously reported in other studies suggesting the need for...