formation and behaviour. Supply and demand for commercial space in China and Poland are also contrasted. As commercial property … a “common ground” that enables similarities between the property markets in China and Poland. The challenge for state …

Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991, Russia experienced a series of economic shocks …

in the re-employment hazard in Russia, with a period of positive duration dependence in the first 7 months, followed by a …

garden plot have a significant impact on the changes in consumption behavior in Russia. Regarding the macroeconomic variables …

This paper examined the male-female differentials in hourly earnings in Russia from 1996 to 2002. The gender wage gap …

real exchange rate misalignments for Poland and Russia during the 1990s using the Beveridge and Nelson (1981) decomposition … crisis. The half life of an exogenous shock is found to be much shorter for Poland than for Russia in the pre-crisis period … generate different levels of misalignment and different responses to exogenous shocks. The average misalignment in Russia is …

Differences in the evolution of income distribution in Poland and Russia in the post-socialist era are striking: for … example, in Poland, the gini coefficient on earnings went from 0.28 to 0.33 between 1988 and 1998 while in Russia it went from ….25 percentage points in the Russian regions between 1995 and 2001. Our results suggest that early privatization in Poland was more …

Public debate about energy relations between the EU and Russia is distorted. These distortions present considerable … demand. Diverse interests inside the EU prevent the definition of a coherent and respected energy policy. Russia, for its … role of mere energy exporter. In view of the intensifying struggle for global resources, Russia, with its large energy …