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The paper, mostly empirical in nature, investigates issues on cross-national new information and communication technologies (ICTs) adoption patterns and growth directions. In the period of 2000-2010, a great number of countries underwent substantial changes on the field of ICTs implementation....
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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...
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were common in Georgia. Rent-seeking behavior, however, led to emergence of remarkably well-functioning and efficiency …
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In this paper, the city rank-size hypothesis is tested for the urban system of the USSR and the Republic of Ukraine …
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-size distribution hypothesis and to expand the analysis initiated by Harris (1970) on the USSR. …
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National Economy of the USSR, 1923―24. In The Balance was exposed for the first time the modern principles of national …
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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,...
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establish an accurate risk-return ratio. The efficiency of banks involved in the shipping industry is particularly important … shipping companies. This paper presents an effort to assess the shipping banks’ efficiency, and the determination of those … factors which affect their technical efficiency, through the application of Data Envelopment Analysis. The results of this …
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Major factors of efficiency of the economy of Ukraine, which influence is formalized in the form of valid regression … models, are revealed. On the basis of the constructed models the forecast of dynamics of the basic parameters of efficiency … of efficiency of economy of Ukraine are revealed. …
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We analyze how the possibility of resale affects efficiency in multi-object uniform-price auctions with asymmetric … participate in a resale market after the auction. In all treatments, the possibility of resale increases efficiency after the … auction, but it also induces demand reduction by high-value bidders during the auction, which reduces auction efficiency. In …
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