Spacial Aspects of Economic Activity Concentration in Russia

Anna Nikolaevna Bufetova ()
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Anna Nikolaevna Bufetova: Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Novosibirsk National Research State University

Spatial Economics=Prostranstvennaya Ekonomika, 2016, issue 3, 38-56

Abstract: Using Markov chains the author studies peculiarities of the process of spatial concentration of economic activity in Russia during the period of 2001-2014 as well as the role of spatial external effects in the mentioned process. The researcher concludes following: a) the predominance of economic activity concentration over its dissemination; b) the existence of ‘trap of backwardness’, and as a result significant concentration of economic activity in a small number of regions with simultaneous formation of a large pole of relative backwardness in prospect. The growing inequality of Russian regions in terms of economic activity leads to their polarization, although the speed of this process is very mild. Analysis of spatial effects showed that their peculiarities depend on relative differences in the development of regions and their nearest neighbors, and that high differentiation of regions in terms of economic activity prevents the development of backward regions and contributes to further polarization. In such circumstances, the regional policy aimed at stimulating the developed regions can only reinforce the ongoing process of polarization, and the policy aimed at the emergence of competitive cooperation of regions and limiting the growth of regional inequalities seems to be more appropriate.

Keywords: regions; of; Russia; ?; economic; activity; ?; spatial; concentration; ?; spatial; effects; ?; Markov; chains; ?; transition; probability; matrix; ?; final; distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.14530/se.2016.3.038-056

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