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| Title of the article | Spatial Concentration of Economic Activity in Russia |
| Pages | 82-99 |
| Author 1 | Eugenia Anatolyevna Kolomak Doctor of Economics, Professor, Section Head. Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Novosibirsk State University 17 pr. Akademika Lavrentyeva, Novosibirsk, Russia, 630090; 2 Pirogova Street, Novosibirsk, Russia, 630090 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
| Abstract | The author studies the dynamics and factors of spatial concentration of economic activity in Russia and with the help of empirical methods tests the hypothesis of agglomeration economy. The analysis shows that Russia has growing inequality in distribution of resources and production and the growth rate of this process is quite high. Determinants of inter-regional divergence in Russia include the following: population density, the size and accessibility of markets, and economic structure; i.e. all these determinants have a market basis and they are key ones in agglomeration economy. The results show no effectiveness of interregional transfers and public investment in reducing differences across Russian territories. Agglomeration economy presupposes that effective conditions that stimulate centrifugal spatial trends correlate with reduction of inter-regional communication barriers which can have both physical and institutional nature. |
| Code | 332.12 |
| DOI | 10.14530/se.2014.4.082-099 |
| Keywords | ♦ еconomic activity ♦ spatial concentration ♦ agglomeration economy ♦ empirical analysis ♦ regional policy |
| Download | SE.2014.4.082-099.Kolomak.pdf |
| For citation | Kolomak E.A. Spatial Concentration of Economic Activity in Russia. Prostranstvennaya Ekonomika = Spatial Economics, 2014, no. 4, pp. 82-99. DOI: 10.14530/se.2014.4.082-099. (In Russian). |
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