Maria Plotnikova

• Aberystwyth University

In this study, we analyse the relationship between migration and inequality, within a network setting. Specifically, we employ social network analysis to investigate whether migration flows move between countries with similar or dissimilar levels of income and inequality, across 41 European countries. We observe that emigration flows move between m...

Innovation is one of the key attributes that sets the entrepreneurs apart from the rest of self-employed people. This paper attempts to distinguish between these two categories by means of exploring the determinants of process innovation in small businesses using a survey of self-employed workers in Andalusia, Spain. The theoretical framework adopt...

The chapter reviews the history of housing finance in Russia since the 1980s. Prior to the demise of the USSR there was state monopoly in the financing of housing construction, building and maintenance resulting in pervasive housing shortages and low housing quality. Afterwards financing mechanisms broke down causing construction volumes to decline...

This paper examines the relationship between the bundling decision of a large firm and the impact of spillovers from smaller firms drawing on stylized facts from the software industry. We find that bundling occurs only in the presence of significant spillovers from the two smaller firms. The large firm does not bundle when there are spillovers for...

We consider a standard linear city model with two firms, where firms and consumers both incur transport costs. This is done by assuming that the total transport cost is shared by the buyers and sellers according to an exogenously given rule. In the model, firms choose locations and prices, with the transportation cost being linear in distance. We f...

The study uses a computational approach to study the phenomenon of housing privatization in Russia in the 1990s. As part of the housing reform flats in multi-family buildings were offered to their residents free of payment. Nevertheless rapid mass housing privatization did not take place. While this outcome admits a number of explanations this anal...

Firm formation has been advocated by policy-makers and examined by researchers as a vehicle for job creation and economic development. Both industrial structures and the firm formation rates of individual industries vary regionally. For instance, Ashcroft et al (1991) showed that firm formation rates vary significantly between U.K. counties. While...

This study addresses the issue of housing privatization in Russia in the course of the 1990s. Privatization was started to create a housing market in order to efficiently allocate resources in the use and production of housing, and to phase out the state budget financing of housing. The dwellings were offered to their residents free of payment. The...

The Russian housing contextPrivatisation of housing in RussiaCase studyConclusion Suggestions to improve management by HOAsReferences

We describe the development, calibration and preliminary application of a dynamically coupled economic-hydrologic simulation-optimization model ensemble for evaluating the conjunctive use of surface and groundwater in small reservoir-based irrigation systems characteristic of the Volta Basin, Africa. We focus on a representative small reservoir-irr...

The Volta Basin covers 400 000 km2 of the West-African savanna. Agriculture is the dominant economic activity. Given the extremely unreliable rainfall, irrigation development is seen as an obvious strategy to increase agricultural production. Irrigation development is mainly linked to the construction of small and medium sized reservoirs. The poten...

The recent enlargement of the European Union (EU) will lead to unprecedented reforms of regional policies. We examine the regional distribution of gross value added, employment, and productivity for the Polish, Hungarian, and Czech regions, and compare them to the EU-15 average for the 1990-2000 period. We study their per capita incomes relative to...

This paper starts by describing the distribution of GVA, employment and productivity growth across the regions of Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic. Next, we investigate in what extent regional per capita income gaps to the European average can be attributed to differences in productivity per worker. Finally, we extend Esteban’s (2000) shift-s...