Using a brand new comprehensive dataset, provided by the Eurasian Development Bank, the paper elaborates on the state of regional integration in Central Asia. We find that although the economic links between the Central Asian countries are more pronounced than between that of the CIS in several...

This research note contains some preliminary estimates in regard to the potential transportation capacity and investment needs of various Silk Road transportation routes that run across the Eurasian Economic Union's countries

In the past two decades, controversial evidence has been produced supporting the case for local protectionism in China. This paper overviews the most important contributions and presents a new approach which applies spatial econometrics on prefectural-level data. The main advantage of this...

We contribute to the rich literature on the role of political boundaries for international and inter-regional transactions by introducing a new methodology and testing it on an important case, China. This paper is based on new identification approach, which combines the use of sub-regional data...

Anti-Western conspiracies are frequently used by governments to strengthen their power. We investigate the impact of conspiracy thinking on expectations of collusion among individuals in Russia and China. For this purpose, we conduct a novel laboratory experiment to measure expectations of...