Essays on Monetary Integration, Inflation, and Trade Competitiveness : Commonwealth Independent States

ISBN-13: 9783639122879 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 120 str.

Ainura Uzagalieva

Opis

This dissertation contains three essays focused onmacroeconomic issues in the Commonwealth IndependentStates (CIS). Two essays, which analyse recentmonetary and inflation issues in the CIS, contributeto empirical studies in the area of monetaryeconomics of countries under transition. The thirdessay explores, formally and empirically, a linkbetween labor market regulations and internationaltrade and proposes a possible area of tradespecialization for a number of countries as, forexample, landlocked economies in Central Asia (CA).The important theoretical point to be gained fromthis essay is that there are very clear reasons forinternational trade between similar or identicalcountries, even between markets that are competitive.Namely, the rational for international trade can bebased on, apart from the standard concept ofdifferences in productivities, differences in labormarket regulations among countries.

O autorze

Ainura Uzagalieva, Ph.D.
Pursued doctoral study at CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic from
June 2001 to May, 2005 (M.A. degree in Economics awarded in 2004,
Ph.D. in Economics in 2006). Since October 2007 she is a
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Center of Applied Economics
Studies of the Atlantic (CEEAplA), the University of the Azores.