Im Zeitraum 2005 - 2008 musste die ukrainische Wirtschaft eine Verdreifachung des Gaspreises verkraften. Die Erfahrungen der Ölkrise in den siebziger Jahren legen nahe, dass der Energiepreis-schock auch in der Ukraine einen Wachstumseinbruch bei hoher Inflation auslöst. Bisher erwies sich die...

This working paper deals with the question how international trade can lead to economic growth. Since only technical progress can lead to sustained economic growth international trade has to accelerate the rate of technical progress to promote economic growth. Technical progress is mainly...

Die neuen Mitgliedstaaten Mittel- und Osteuropas (EU10) wurden von der globalen Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise noch härter getroffen als die EU-Altmitglieder. Allerdings ergibt sich innerhalb der Region ein differenziertes Bild. Während Polen relativ unbeschadet durch die Krise gekommen ist,...

This paper presents an overview of Kazakhstan’s regional development based on a description of principal economic and social indicators. The focus is on administratively defined regions (oblasts) of Kazakhstan. The main goal pursued in this report is to examine specific features of...

The paper investigates the current status of economic research in Russia using a previously unexplored dataset of Russian ‘Doctor of Science’ (Dr. Sc.) theses. The Dr. Sc. degree is a postdoctoral qualification necessary for career advancement at most Russian universities. Thus, by looking...

This article seeks to identify the causes impeding the ethnic parties to participate in the post-communist coalition governments. We conduct a cross-national and longitudinal analysis in which we take into account all the elections in which the ethnic parties gained parliamentary representation....

The relevance of (political) borders on the one hand and of historical conditions on the other hand for some of today’s aspects of ec onomic and social reality is well established in both theoretical and empirical research in economics as wel as in other disciplines. More surprising are...

We analyze 1334 estimates from 67 studies that examine the effect of financial development on economic growth. Taken together, the studies imply a positive and statistically significant effect, but individual estimates vary a lot. We find that both research design and heterogeneity in the...