Y. Vymyatnina, D. Antonova: Creating a Eurasian Union Economic Integration of the Former Soviet Republics

 
19.09.2014
 
Department of Economics

 Creating a Eurasian UnionJune 25, Palgrave Macmillan Publishing released the new book of BP Professor of Economics Yulia Vymyatnina and the Department's of Economics alumnus Daria Antonova CREATING A EURASIAN UNION. Economic Integration of the Former Soviet Republics.

Creating a Eurasian Union offers a detailed analysis of the economies of the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan and the proposed Eurasian Union. The authors employ econometric analysis of business cycles and cointegration analysis to prove the fragility of the union's potential economic success. By providing a brief description of the economic integration of the former Soviet republics, this pioneering work analyses the on-going trial and error processes of market integration led by Russia.

Vymyatnina and Antonova's distinctive argument is the first consistent analysis of the emerging Eurasian Union. They incorporate both a non-technical summary of the integration process and previous research and analytical comments, as well as a thorough empirical analysis of the real data on the economic development of the participating countries, to caution that the speed of integration might undermine the feasibility of the Eurasian Union.

Introduction
1. Post-Soviet Integration: Fictive and Derivative
2. Business Cycles Synchronization of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan
Conclusions and Policy Recommendations
Appendix 1. Additional Information on the Customs Union Trade (2011-2012)
Appendix 2. Data Sources
Appendix 3. Integration, Fractional Integration, Cointegration of Real De-Trended GDP
Appendix 4. More Results of Business Cycles and Correlations Analysis (Graphic Representation)
Appendix 5. Business Cycles Correlation: GDP, GDP Decomposition and Growth Rates
Appendix 6. VAR, Variance Decomposition and Impulse-Response Analysis of Real GDP and GDP Decomposition

yvymyatninaYulia Vymyatnina is BP Professor of Economics and Deputy Head of the dantonovaDepartment of Economics at the European University at St. Petersburg, Russia.

Daria Antonova is an Analyst-Econometrician for Brand Science, part of the BBDO Group.