The Russian regional convergence process
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2009
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This paper investigates the income convergence among Russian regions in the period 1998-2006. It makes two major contributions to rather extensive literature on the regional convergence in Russia. First, it identifies spatial regimes using the exploratory spatial data analysis. Second, it examines the impact of spatial effects on the convergence process. Our results show that the overall speed of regional convergence in Russia, being low by inter- national standards, becomes even lower after controlling for spatial effects. However, when accounting for the spatial regimes, we find a strong regional convergence among high-income regions located near other high-income regions. Our results indicate that estimation of speed of convergence using aggregate data may result in misleading conclusions regarding the nature of convergence process among Russia’s regions.
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KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich
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SPATIAL ECONOMICS (GEOGRAPHY); RUSSIA (FROM 1991 AND UNTIL 1917). RUSSIAN FEDERATION; beta-convergence; spatial effects; STATISTISCHE ANALYSE RÄUMLICHER DATEN (MATHEMATISCHE STATISTIK); Regional convergence; ECONOMIC GROWTH; spatial regimes; sigma-convergence; WIRTSCHAFTSWACHSTUM; RUSSLAND (AB 1991 UND VOR 1917). RUSSISCHE FÖDERATION; RAUMWIRTSCHAFTSLEHRE (GEOGRAFIE); SPATIAL STATISTICS (MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS)
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02525 - KOF Konjunkturforschungsstelle / KOF Swiss Economic Institute