Breaking the Unbreakable Union: Nationalism, Disintegration and the Soviet Economic Collapse
(2018) In Economic Journal 128(615). p.2933-2967- Abstract
- This paper investigates the effect of prospective secessions on economic integration and growth by examining the break-up of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Firstly, I show theoretically how regional elites had an incentive to restrict domestic trade once secession from the Union became possible. Secondly, I show empirically that the increased likelihood of secessions by the Union’s member republics strongly cut domestic trade. Thirdly, I show how this explains the severity of the Soviet output fall. These patterns persist once I instrument for prospective secessions with nationalist agendas that are exogenous to trade or growth.
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- author
- Suesse, Marvin LU
- publishing date
- 2018-11
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- in
- Economic Journal
- volume
- 128
- issue
- 615
- pages
- 34 pages
- publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85044221582
- ISSN
- 1468-0297
- DOI
- 10.1111/ecoj.12564
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
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- f407b05f-41a6-447f-876e-2775b6f92ff4
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