Restricting Russian imports is an important instrument in Allies’ sanction toolbox. Rather than arbitrarily choosing the set of targeted imported products and the level of import tariff increases (as is typically done in the literature), we follow the recent contributions on 'optimal sanction'...

This paper provides a brief overview of unconventional research in the USSR and Russia from the end of 19th to the beginning of 21st centuries in areas of weak biophysical interactions, electromagnetic fields of biological organisms and psycho-biophysical mechanisms of the brain. The review is...

The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) prohibits US firms from paying bribes to foreign public officials. We show that FCPA enforcement has no positive effect on the GDP per capita of the countries of these officials but, rather, increases their countries shadow economy. When public officials...

Individual vulnerability has triggered a vivid debate in the data protection field. However, the efforts to define and protect vulnerable individuals in data protection law (building on a blurred notion of “data power” imbalance) appear still incomplete, under both a theoretical and a...

Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) advocates fiscal control of money supply, with a view toward assuring full employment and robust growth without inducing high inflation. Successful implementation requires a strong, determined state that commands a relatively self-sufficient economy and refuses to...

Lignin hydropyrolysis characteristics were investigated in a high-pressure micro-reactor with on-line analysis. The effects of atmosphere, pressure, and temperature on product formation during lignin pyrolysis were quantitatively studied. The formation mechanisms of typical products were...

This brief examines the development of Russia's trade flows in the March-June period following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Russia ceased publication of foreign trade statistics after the war broke out, so we utilize the trade statistics of Russia's major trading partners. We find that Russia's...

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has triggered a series of sanctions imposed by the European Union, the United States and others. Sanctions included restrictions on Russia's financial industry, its central bank and its coal and oil exporters, in addition to general export controls. Meanwhile,...

This article examines the research literature on the economic aspects of the "Sino-Soviet Alliance", which lasted from the end of the Chinese Civil war until the Sino-Soviet split (1949-1960/63). The Soviet and Eastern European contribution to China's industrialization, called the "largest...