期刊名称：DIW Diskussionspapiere / Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Berlin
出版年度：2009
卷号：2009
出版社：Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Berlin
摘要：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 international
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.
