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Accelerated Development of the Russian Far East: A View through the New International Trade Theory and New Economic Geography
Russia in Global Affairs. 2018. Vol. 16. No. 3. P. 110–129.
The development of the Russian Far East, which has been declared by President Putin a “national priority for the 21st century” has so far not fully lived up to expectations. The key problem is that numerous tools for an accelerated development of the region are used without a clear idea of what its future should be like and without an analysis of its competitive advantages and factors that restrain economic growth. This article analyzes these advantages and restraints through the lens of the new international trade theory and new economic geography. The focus is on economies of scale, the use of the advantages of which is a prerequisite for the competitiveness of companies producing manufactured goods. According to these theories, the main obstacles to accelerated growth in the Russian Far East are the insufficient size of the market and the continuous population distribution pattern, a Soviet legacy which makes it impossible to use the benefits of agglomeration.
Tikhomirova A., Chowdhury M. A., Мир России: Социология, этнология 2026 Vol. 35 No. 4 P. 98–117
Cooperation between Russia and China in the field of education has expanded significantly.
In 2026, the number of Russian students studying in China reached 21,000. However, empirical
evidence shows that students face many difficulties adapting to the new environment. Given
the growing popularity of Chinese universities among Russian students, the present study
aimed to identify the factors and mechanisms ...
Added: September 11, 2026
Grishina D., Soloviev A., Международная аналитика 2026 Т. 17 № 2 С. 10–29
This publication analyzes the historical and geopolitical context of the formation and development of the concept of the “Russian threat” – a public narrative about the territorial ambitions of the Russian Empire that became widespread in Northeast Asia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Using the example of the concept’s origins and transformation in Korea (first in the Joseon Dynasty, later in the Republic of Korea), the authors demonstrate ...
Added: August 17, 2026
Fedyunina A., Drapkin I. M., Simachev Y. V., Area Development and Policy 2026
Trade sanctions generate asymmetric shocks in developing economies, reshaping their integration into global value chains (GVCs). Using a gravity framework covering 68 developing countries over the period 2000–2021, this paper examines how sanctions affect forward and backward GVC linkages. We find that sanctions significantly reduce both dimensions of GVC participation: backward linkages suffer deeper and ...
Added: August 10, 2026
Kanaev E., Southeast Asia: Actual Problems of Development 2026 Vol. 2 No. 2(71) P. 11–22
The author focuses on a strengthening digital component in the evolution of the South China Sea issue in the context of ASEAN’s evolving approach to the deepening contradictions and its policy in the digital field. On outlining ASEAN’s policy on the South China Sea issue, the author proceeds to exploring the digital agenda of ASEAN’s ...
Added: July 30, 2026
Zhuravleva T., Afanasev K., Engelmann J. et al., / Series "SSRN Working Paper Series". 2026.
Extortionary ("harassment") bribery can persist even when widely condemned, consistent with a coordination problem sustained by beliefs about what others do and what others consider acceptable. We study whether a minimal institutional featurethe presence of a third-party monitor empowered to punish-shifts (i) normative expectations about extortion and compliance and (ii) empirical expectations about their prevalence. ...
Added: July 22, 2026
Lukin A., Telos 2026 Vol. 2026 No. 215 P. 11–41
The year 2026 marks the sixtieth anniversary of the beginning in China of the “Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution” – an unprecedented political campaign both in its duration and in the tragic nature of its results and consequences. Despite the publication of numerous books and articles devoted to it in various countries around the world, its ...
Added: July 18, 2026
Sizova A., В кн.: Сибирь в фокусе исторических и востоковедных исследований : сборник научных статей, посвященный 70-летию со дня рождения известного ученого, педагога, просветителя и общественного деятеля, доктора исторических наук, профессора Александра Владимировича Старцева (1956–2019).: Барнаул: Алтайский государственный педагогический университет, 2026. С. 197–212.
The article examines the contribution of A. V. Startsev, Doctor of Historical Sciences, to the study of the Biysk merchant A. D. Vasenev, a prominent figure in Russian-Mongolian and Russian-Chinese trade in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It also considers the role of this research in shaping Startsev’s scholarly interests. The article identifies ...
Added: July 8, 2026
Murashkin N., Emelyanova O., Asia Europe Journal 2025 Vol. 23 No. 4 P. 239–261
The goal of this article is to trace the evolution of Japan’s role in Southeast and South Asian political economy in the 2000s–2010s to understand how Japan’s previously established network power in Asian supply chains has changed amid much-discussed power shifts in the region. The increasing number of emerging and rising regional powers induces Japan ...
Added: June 30, 2026
Mishin A., Guerrieri L., Kim J., / Series 2026-042 "Finance and Economics Discussion Series (FEDS)". 2026.
Within narrowly defined industries, the most productive firms produce far more than the least productive from the same inputs, and this dispersion widens in downturns. We build a tractable representative-agent model in which financial frictions—adverse selection and moral hazard—make firms sort endogenously into lenders, strategic defaulters, and producers. As credit conditions vary, the resulting misallocation ...
Added: June 28, 2026
Власов С. А., Nevalennyi M., Сафиулин Р. Р. et al., / Банк России. Серия Аналитическая записка "Материалы Банка России". 2026.
В аналитической записке обсуждается долгосрочно устойчивый уровень цены на российскую нефть. Это тот уровень, к которому цена нефти, вероятнее всего, будет тяготеть в долгосрочной перспективе. Потребность в его определении возникает по нескольким причинам. Во-первых, цена на нефть остается одним из ключевых экономических показателей российской экономики, определяющих экспорт, обменный курс рубля, прибыль, доходы и расходы бюджета, ...
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Глазова А. М., Nevalennyi M., Синяков А. А., / Банк России. Серия Препринты Банка России "Серия докладов об экономических исследованиях". 2025. № 154.
The paper proposes a graphical model of a small open economy. The dynamics of the graphical model is then illustrated using impulse responses from the corresponding formal semi-structural model (QPM model). The authors have several goals in preparing this description of the graphical macroeconomic model. The first goal of the paper is to present an adapted ...
Added: June 27, 2026
Mishin A., Guerrieri L., Canzoneri M. et al., / Series 2026-042 "Finance and Economics Discussion Series (FEDS)". 2026.
Added: June 27, 2026
Bogatyrev R., Sandomirskaia M., / NRU Higher School of Economics. Series EC "Economics". 2026. No. 19(1).
This work develops a tractable model of price competition in fragmented markets where consumers consider both local and distant varieties, with cross-regional purchases subject to stochastic costs. Global competition and full localization emerge as polar cases; hybrid competition is not merely intermediate and exhibits distinctive features such as an endogenous price ceiling and non-monotonic entry ...
Added: June 11, 2026
Kravtsova M., Musaev A. U., Welzel C., / Series "SSRN Working Paper Series". 2026.
Elaborating on Welzel et al.'s "Cool Water Theory," our study zooms into the more limited (albeit still varied) framework conditions of Russia's huge territory. Within Russia's confines, we examine how the combination of moderately cool seasons with steady rain (i.e., Cool Water) affects sub-national areas' contemporary societal progress in two modernization indicators: material prosperity in ...
Added: June 3, 2026
Синяков А. А., Зверева В., Шелованова Т. И., / Центральный банк Российской Федерации. Серия 132 / 2024 "Серия докладов об экономических исследованиях". 2024. № 132.
At the end of 2023, Russia updated its Strategy for Improving Financial Literacy and Developing Financial Culture Until 2030. Unlike the previous strategy, the current strategic goals include not only financial literacy but also financial culture. ‘Culture’ is normative and socially preferred behaviour. The updated strategy brings into focus the relationship between financial literacy and responsible financial behaviour. To explore this relationship, the authors rely on data from the All-Russian Survey of Consumer Finance (2020 and 2022). Socially ...
Added: June 1, 2026
Vorchik A., / SSRN. Серия Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2026.
This work is devoted to a theoretical explanation of the Easterlin paradox, according to which long-term economic growth does not make average level of people's happiness increasing. By happiness, we mean the intensity of emotions people experience while comparing their new income with its expected value, or the target income with its original value. In the first case, ...
Added: May 31, 2026
Милькова А. А., Вестник Пермского университета. Серия: Политология 2026 Т. 20 № 1 С. 104–114
The article is devoted to strategic narratives about the international system in the foreign policy dis-course of the President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping. An analysis of their evolution revealed the growing influence of Chinese political thought in shaping the modern world order, which is a topic of great academic and practical ...
Added: May 6, 2026
Shaposhnikov S., Kiselev S., Азия и Африка сегодня 2026 № 4 С. 14–25
This article explores the nature of asymmetric interdependence in Sino-Japanese relations, analyzing trade flows, investment dynamics, technological cooperation, and geopolitical factors shaping bilateral ties. Japan is significantly dependent on China as its largest export market and key manufacturing base, while China remains reliant on Japan for critical technologies, precision equipment, and advanced materials. Both states ...
Added: April 29, 2026
Budnik R., Журнал зарубежного законодательства и сравнительного правоведения 2026 Т. 22 № 2 С. 15–26
This article examines the precedential cooperation between the governmental and business entities in eradicating piracy in the informational area of China. The purpose of the study is to analyze the unique empirical approach to the implementation of public policy aimed at restoring the effective functioning of mechanisms for the protection and enforcement of intellectual property ...
Added: April 27, 2026
Biryukova O. V., Kupalov I., Zhang W., R-Economy 2026 Vol. 12 No. 1 P. 109–125
Relevance. Twenty-five years after China’s accession to the WTO, the multilat eral trading system faces unprecedented challenges, including institutional pa ralysis, geopolitical fragmentation, and rising protectionism. Against this back drop, China’s trajectory offers a critical case study of how a major non-Western economy can simultaneously integrate into, adapt to, and reshape global trade governance. Yet existing literature often ...
Added: April 6, 2026
Ustyuzhanin V., / Series Econometrics "arxiv". 2026.
This paper proposes Covariate-Balanced Weighted Stacked Difference-in-Differences (CBWSDID), a design-based extension of weighted stacked DID for settings in which untreated trends may be conditionally rather than unconditionally parallel. The estimator separates within-subexperiment design adjustment from across-subexperiment aggregation: matching or weighting improves treated-control comparability within each stacked subexperiment, while the corrective stacked weights of Wing et ...
Added: April 3, 2026
Vassily B. Kashin, Veronika A. Smirnova, Alexandra D. Yankova, Russia in Global Affairs 2026 Vol. 24 No. 2 P. 79–95
This article examines China’s comprehensive mobilization policies undertaken since the early 2020s. Analysis reveals that they span multiple domains. First, China is developing a protected inland reserve of critical industrial capacity. Second, it is strengthening emergency supply mechanisms and accelerating the accumulation of food and raw-material reserves. Third, it is enhancing civil defense and urban ...
Added: April 1, 2026
Vorchik A., / Social Science Research Network. Серия SSRN Working Paper Series "SSRN Working Paper Series". 2026.
This article is devoted to the phenomenon of intrinsic motivation, to understand which two models are proposed. We study how positive/negative intrinsic motivation to work (experienced utility) affects worker's individual labour supply (model I) and the amount of effort they exert (model II). In model I, we use intrinsic motivation to explain the positive/negative slope ...
Added: March 15, 2026
Biryukova O. V., Жаронкина Д. В., Вопросы экономики 2026 № 3 С. 25–43
The article analyzes the state and dynamics of China’s service sector development as a key factor in enhancing the country’s international competitiveness. The study examines the parameters of China’s participation in international trade in services, which still lags significantly behind trade in goods. Nevertheless, the country places great emphasis on trade in services for a range of strategic, economic, and ...
Added: March 11, 2026