Ira Gang
Rutgers University
Department of Economics
E-mail: gang@economics.rutgers.edu
Item Number: [J48]
Title: The Political Economy of Russian City Growth
Abstract: This paper examines the political economy of Russian city
growth. For the 1980s, we model the growth of 168 Russian cities located
in 71 Russian oblasts. We examine the role of both general socio-economic
characteristics and specific state controls. Our goal is to understand
the extent to which state controls on city growth actually limited city growth,
controlling for the usual types of forces used to explain the attractiveness
of different cities. We find that even with considerable variation of
model specification, direct controls remain important as a factor explaining
the growth of Russian cities in the immediate pre-transition era. We
expect the distortions of the command era to influence city growth patterns
in the transition era.
Reference: Robert C. Stuart and Ira N. Gang, The Political Economy
of Russian City Growth, Economic Development and Cultural Change 50
(2002) 491-508
Co-Author Information:
Robert C. Stuart
Rutgers University
E-Mail: stuart@economics.rutgers.edu
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