Is There Convergence of Russia's Regions? Exploring the Empirical Evidence: 1995-2010

Lehmann, Hartmut; Silvagni, Maria Giulia

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“…In Russia, progress and development have their epicenter in Moscow, just as political decision-making and economic resources are concentrated in the capital (Lehmann and Silvagni, 2013), possibly leaving those regions worse off that are far away from the Russian capital. We include distance to Moscow in order to account for this factor.…”

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Income inequality and oligarchs in Russian regions: A note

Fidrmuc

Gundacker

2017

European Journal of Political Economy

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. We trace the rise of the so called oligarchs in post-Soviet Russia and examine their relationship to income distribution in Russia. When Russia moved to a market economy in the 1990s a new business elite evolved. Russia's distinctive path towards market economy, among other factors, gave rise to the oligarchs who now control large parts of the economy and have a strong standing within politics and society. Using a unique regional data set on the locations of oligarchs' businesses across the Russian regions, we test Acemoglu's (2008) proposition that oligarchic societies experience extreme income inequality. Our results show significantly higher levels of income inequality in regions with a higher presence of oligarchs. Terms of use: Documents inJEL-Codes: L220, D430, P250, P310.

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Section: Estimation Strategymentioning

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Income inequality and oligarchs in Russian regions: A note

Fidrmuc

Gundacker

2017

European Journal of Political Economy

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“…Moreover, we use regression analysis to identify the determinants of distribution dynamics among various economic, demographic, environmental, social, and institutional factors. A number of previous studies have investigated regional inequality and convergence in Brazil [Azzoni (2001), Lima et al (2010), Mello (2010), and Neto and Azzoni (2011)], China [Hering and Poncet (2010), Lin et al (2013), and Tian et al (2016)], India [Barua and Chakraborty (2010), Das et al (2010), Mallick (2014), and Cherodian and Thirlwall (2015)], and Russia [Fedorov (2002), Kholodilin et al (2012), Akhmedjonov et al (2013), and Lehmann and Silvagni (2013)]. In addition, several works have conducted comparative analysis of these issues across some of the four economies in the sample.…”

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Regional Convergence in Large Emerging Economies: A Distribution Dynamics Approach

Tochkov

2020

Macroecon. Dynam.

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Rapid growth in large emerging economies has been spread unequally across their regions leading to growing income disparities. This paper examines the distribution of regional output per capita and the evolution of its shape in Brazil, China, India, and Russia from the mid-1990s to the mid-2010s. A comparative analysis of convergence is conducted using a nonparametric methodology. The results reveal different distribution dynamics across the four economies. Chinese regions with below-median output per capita have the highest probability of transitioning toward higher-income levels, while their Brazilian counterparts are trapped at the bottom of the distribution. Although India has the lowest and Russia one of the highest regional income inequalities, they display similar divergence patterns exemplified by high persistence at both ends of the distribution. Our findings indicate that government spending and the rule of law are the major driving forces behind regional convergence, except in Russia where they have the opposite effect. Innovation and property rights also promote convergence in China, but cause regional divergence in India.

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“…Many previous studies that analyze regional convergence, also in the case of Russia, follow convergence models where observations relative to individual regions are considered independent of each other (see e.g. Østbye andWesterlund 2007, Lehmann andSilvagni 2013). However, as noted in a growing strand of the regional literature (Elhorst 1995, Möller and Soltwedel 2007, Niebuhr, Granato et al 2012, LeSage 2014, the use of regional data requires an appropriate econometric treatment to avoid specific sources of bias: regions cannot be seen as independent of each other.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This spatial interrelation arises in a spatial lag, which if not taken into account creates biased estimates in the regression model (Franzese and Hays 2007). To take this adequately into account, we also apply spatial econometrics methodology (Anselin 1988, LeSage and Pace 2010, Elhorst 2014, which allows us to distinguish the effect of changes in incomes and unemployment rates in the neighbouring regions from the rest. This represents an important innovation in the relevant literature, since it allows us to separate the effect of migration relative to distant regions from those relative to neighbouring ones.…”

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It's the Way People Move! Labour Migration as an Adjustment Device in Russia

Semerikova¹

2020

SSRN Journal

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Is There Convergence of Russia's Regions? Exploring the Empirical Evidence: 1995-2010

Cited by 11 publications

References 66 publications

Income inequality and oligarchs in Russian regions: A note

Income inequality and oligarchs in Russian regions: A note

Regional Convergence in Large Emerging Economies: A Distribution Dynamics Approach

It's the Way People Move! Labour Migration as an Adjustment Device in Russia

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