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This paper looks at economic growth and its fundamental determinants in Russia over the last decades. It starts by … showing that, contrary to the views of some political commentators, growth is highly important for the popularity of president … Putin. Furthermore, regular models of growth are relevant to Russia and other transition countries over the last two decades …
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This paper looks at how the Russian economy has developed under the leadership of Putin and how it spills over to its neighbours in the CIS region. It stresses the importance of international oil prices as a determinant of policies and outcomes in Russia and highlights how this has impacted...
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Until 2012, the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) used its policy rate to stabilise the rial's exchange rate and, given a persistent current-account surplus, had accumulated sizeable currency reserves. In 2012, however, international sanctions against Iran intensified and the value of the rial halved...
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The security of energy supply is a key geopolitical factor in the relationship between the European Union and the southern neighborhood countries of the Middle East and North Africa region. We study the response of eight Mediterranean economies to exogenous oil supply shocks. We focus on the...
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and product price dynamics using cointegration and error correction models. Subsequently we use the error correction …
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Johansen cointegration technique which is appropriate for empirical testing based on time series. The empirical results suggest …
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; Innovation ; Pharmaceuticals ; Health care expenditure ; Cointegration …
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China is appraised to have the world's largest exploitable reserves of shale gas, although several legal, regulatory, environmental and investment-related issues will likely restrain its scope. China's capacity to successfully face these hurdles and produce commercial shale gas will have a...
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the variability. The measured variables are used to model inflation and intraregional trade growth of individual union … trade growth of major ASEAN+3 members, and that a union would reduce inflation and promote intraregional trade on the whole …
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Global diversification of financial institutions, including the insurance sector, has proven beneficial to many economies by providing them with increasing capital flow, higher competition, and introduction of newer technologies and distribution channels. This paper aims to critically evaluate...
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