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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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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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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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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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An Extension of the Structural Change Model to International Economic Relations
Araujo, Ricardo Azevedo; Teixeira, Joanílio Rodolpho - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
In this paper Pasinetti’s model of structural economic dynamics (1981) is extended to consider international economic relations. Conditions for full employment, full expenditure of income and equilibrium of the trade balance are established for an open economy that requires capital goods to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258954
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SOUTH-SOUTH REGIONALISM AND TRADE COOPERATION IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION
Shafaeddin, Mehdi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This study of regional South-South (S-S) trade and cooperation in East, South and South-East Asian countries (ESSEA) aims to provide an economic rationale for S-S trade; shed some light on the extent and pattern of S-S trade in the ESSEA region; examine the dynamic forces behind the expansion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835384
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Towards an effective implementation of clean development mechanism projects in China
Zhang, ZhongXiang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
available, China is widely expected as the world’s number one host country of clean development mechanism (CDM) projects. But …, making this potential a reality represents a significant challenge for China, because there has been a general lack of …. This has raised great concern about China’s ability to compete internationally for CDM projects and exploit fully its CDM …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835477
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A Comparative Study on Landownership between China and England
Deng, Feng - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1996
By comparing the development of landownership in China and England, this paper explores what were behind their … early China has established a unique economic system that allowed free alienation of land, but it has been trying to check … strengthening and expanding of patriarchal clan system. The different development paths of China and England show the different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835578