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Where russians should live: a counterfactual alternative to Soviet location policy
Mikhailova, Tatiana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper investigates the extent of distortions in Russia's spatial economy that are inherited from the Soviet system. Using Canada as a benchmark for spatial dynamics of economic activity in a market economy, I construct the spatial allocation of population that would result in Russia, given...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009418481
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Price adjustment under the table: Evidence on efficiency-enhancing corruption
Levy, Daniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Based on first-hand account, this paper offers evidence on price setting and price adjustment mechanisms that were illegally employed under the Soviet planning and rationing regime. The evidence is anecdotal, and is based on personal experience during the years 1960–1971 in the Republic of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837500
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Planned Economic Development and Loglinearity in the Rank-Size Distribution of Urban Systems: The Soviet Experience
Mirucki, Jean - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1986
In this paper, the city rank-size hypothesis is tested for the urban system of the USSR and the Republic of Ukraine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008784623
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City rank-size hypothesis and the Soviet urban system: 1897-1979
Mirucki, Jean - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1985
-size distribution hypothesis and to expand the analysis initiated by Harris (1970) on the USSR. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008784948
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The Central Statistical Administration and the Balance of the National Economy of the USSR, 1923—24
Akhabbar, Amanar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
National Economy of the USSR, 1923―24. In The Balance was exposed for the first time the modern principles of national …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011150763
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Gulag, WWII and the Long-run Patterns of Soviet City Growth
Mikhailova, Tatiana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper analyzes the geographical patterns of city growth in the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation in relation to the Stalinist policies of the 1930s to 1950s, and WWII. Using a unique data set on the locations of Gulag camps, and on the evacuation of industrial enterprises during WWII,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107447
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Evaluation du degré d’indépendance de la Banque Centrale de Tunisie
mhamdi, ghrissi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The search for the credibility of monetary policies during the recent decades this is materialized , among other things, changes in the laws that govern the activities of the Central Bank, supposed main guarantor of the proper conduct of monetary policy. These changes are aimed , essentially the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011274381
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Beating a Random Walk: “Hard Times” for Forecasting Inflation in Post-Oil Boom Years?
Huseynov, Salman; Ahmadov, Vugar; Adigozalov, Shaig - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
inflation for different horizons. We design our forecast experiment for the post-oil boom years of 2010-2014 and compare … advantage over naïve ones in boom and pre-boom years. We find that despite declining volatility in inflation over the post … of inflation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011251893
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On the removal of energy products subsidies in an importing oil country: impacts on prices in Morocco.
Bentour, El Mostafa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
sectors, we deduce the overall inflation generated by direct and indirect requirements for the total economy. For example, an … increase in oil prices by 75% generates a global inflation cost between 5.5% and 8%. Symmetric scenarios indicate no strong … asymmetrical effects. The generated inflation may alter the stable path of inflation recorded over the past fifteen years putting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011253053
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Politique monétaire et croissance économique en zone cemac [une évaluation empirique en données de panel]
Ekobena, Fouda; Yannick, Simon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
formulated at the beginning, one also notes that inflation has a negative effect on the economic growth. These results emphasize …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258720