On May 1, 2004, ten countries in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe will become full members of the EU. The parliaments and monetary authorities of the ten accession countries have already to a large extent adapted their legal and institutional structures to the new Europe-wide environment....

This study aims to assess the impact of the activity of the Toulon DCN on the Var with the help of two approaches, the first of which is level-based and determines the values of both economic base multipliers and input-output multipliers by composing an input-output table of the Var economy ;...

On 5-6 September 2012 SUERF held its 30th Colloquium “States, Banks, and the Financing of the Economy” at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. The papers included in this SUERF Study are based on contributions to the Colloquium. All the chapters in this publication discuss from different...

In March 2013 around 130 participants from academia, banking and finance, governments and central banking gathered at the premises of the OeNB in Vienna for a conference jointly organized by the European Money and Finance Forum SUERF, the OeNB and the Austrian Society for Bank Research to...

On 5-6 September 2012 SUERF held its 30th Colloquium "States, Banks, and the Financing of the Economy" at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. The papers included in this SUERF Study are based on contributions to the Colloquium. All the chapters in this publication discuss from different...

In March 2013 around 130 participants from academia, banking and finance, governments and central banking gathered at the premises of the OeNB in Vienna for a conference jointly organized by the European Money and Finance Forum SUERF, the OeNB and the Austrian Society for Bank Research to...

A widespread controversy raised in the period under review regarding measures of tackling the eff ects of economic sanctions on Russia. In our opinion, decision-making should be based on a comprehensive analysis of potential eff ects of measures proposed by the Russian Government and/or experts....

The period under review saw events that will have a signifi cant eff ect on Russia’s economic policies in the near term: Russia imposed a prepayment regime on natural gas supplies to Ukraine and signed an agreement on the establishment of Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) embracing Russia,...

The Main Trends of the Budget Policy for 2015 and the Planning Period of 2016 and 2017 deserves a particular emphasis in reviewing the above period. This is the fi rst detailed analytical document concerning the current situation and development prospects of the Russian economy facing economic...

In the period under consideration, as a result of restrictions imposed by Russia on food imports from those countries that had introduced sanctions against the Russian Federation or those that have joined the anti-Russian economic policy, the domestic market was being artifi cially limited. This...