By publishing this first Report on the System of Indicators of Eurasian Integration (SIEI), we hope to lay the foundations of a new long-term project. It is expected that from now on the EDB will collect data and calculate the indicators on an annual basis. The respective reports will be made...

Islamic banking and finance are still an unfamiliar concept in India. The search for alternatives to conventional banking sheds spotlight on the Islamic banking but this seems to be an infeasible and unwanted burden to the Indian banking system. This paper attempts to understand the evolution,...

This report presents the results of the study performed as part of the EDB project “System of Indicators of Eurasian Integration” (SIEI). The study concerns the measurement and analysis of the long-term dynamics of integration processesin the post-Soviet space. It covers eleven CIS countries...

Conventional wisdom holds that globalization has peaked and is now in retreat. Dani Rodrik argued in 2000 that economic integration conflicted with national sovereignty and that this tension would, or at least should, put a brake on economic globalization. Has that view been vindicated? This...

Russian Abstract Публикуя первый Отчет по Системе индикаторов евразийской интеграции (СИЕИ), мы надеемся заложить основы долгосрочного проекта. В дальнейшем...

Using estimates of support for Leave across UK local authority areas constructed from a comprehensive 20,000 strong survey, we show that both the level and the geographic variation capturing differential degrees of support for Leave have changed significantly since the 2016 EU referendum. A lot...

We use anonymized data from Facebook to construct a new measure of the pairwise social connectedness between 180 countries and 332 European regions. We find that two countries trade more with each other when they are more socially connected and when they share social connections with a similar...

Die internationale Arbeitsteilung bietet für eine Volkswirtschaft sowohl Vorals auch Nachteile. Sofern die damit verbundenen Grenzkosten und Grenznutzen die üblichen Verläufe aufweisen, gibt es für jedes Land ein optimales Ausmaß dieser Arbeitsteilung. Die Corona-Pandemie dürfte die...

This paper examines the effects of globalisation on the pace of governments implementing international travel restrictions during the recent coronavirus pandemic. We find that more globalised countries experienced a longer delay in implementing international travel restriction policies with...