Essays on Monetary Integration, Inflation, and Trade Competitiveness

This dissertation contains three essays focused on
macroeconomic issues in the Commonwealth Independent
States (CIS). Two essays, which analyse recent
monetary and inflation issues in the CIS, contribute
to empirical studies in the area of monetary
economics of countries under transition. The third
essay explores, formally and empirically, a link
between labor market regulations and international
trade and proposes a possible area of trade
specialization for a number of countries as, for
example, landlocked economies in Central Asia (CA).
The important theoretical point to be gained from
this essay is that there are very clear reasons for
international trade between similar or identical
countries, even between markets that are competitive.
Namely, the rational for international trade can be
based on, apart from the standard concept of
differences in productivities, differences in labor
market regulations among countries.

Autorentext
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.

Klappentext
This dissertation contains three essays focused on macroeconomic issues in the Commonwealth Independent States (CIS). Two essays, which analyse recent monetary and inflation issues in the CIS, contribute to empirical studies in the area of monetary economics of countries under transition. The third essay explores, formally and empirically, a link between labor market regulations and international trade and proposes a possible area of trade specialization for a number of countries as, for example, landlocked economies in Central Asia (CA). The important theoretical point to be gained from this essay is that there are very clear reasons for international trade between similar or identical countries, even between markets that are competitive. Namely, the rational for international trade can be based on, apart from the standard concept of differences in productivities, differences in labor market regulations among countries.