1997-1998, the roots of the crises in our region were usually less sophisticated and easier to identify. Most crisis … institutional reforms. The only minor exception was the Czech Republic where the devaluation crisis in May 1997 (of rather limited … group. Bulgaria in 1996-1997 represents the first episode of a full-scale financial crisis, involving drastic currency …

towards them has become a pressing issue for both Russia and Ukraine and addressing this matter will greatly influence the …

More than six years have passed since the subprime mortgage crisis began in the US in the summer of 2007. In the … surprising that economists’ attention has been largely devoted to short-term, crisis-related issues like financial deleveraging … means concentrating on demand management by using monetary and fiscal policy tools in order to return to a pre-crisis growth …

“Most people would say that Europe is still sort of coming out of the financial crisis that we had 5 years ago, which …), where the current crisis began. He argues that the crisis of 2007-2008 was not as devastating as is commonly believed, and … - more importantly – claims that the Fed’s policy during the crisis, based on lessons learn from the Great Depression, not …

The full-scale financial crisis in Russia erupted in August 1998 made a blow to the President Lukashenko domestic and … to a crisis in Belarus already in the first quarter of 1998. The crisis in Russian spilling over through trade channel … prior to the first quarter of 1998 and then analyzes consequences of the Russian financial crisis on the Belarussian economy. …

bottom line on that is well known: Ukraine’s economy performed very poorly, and its reforms moved quite slowly, lagging … Oleh Havrylyshyn during the 135th mBank-CASE Seminar "A quarter century of economic reforms in Ukraine: too late, too slow …

and Georgeta Mincu (Moldova), Tom Coupé and Hanna Vakhitova (Ukraine). The authors would like to thank for their comments …

Since the beginning of the 1990s, demographic, economic and social changes occurring in Russia and Ukraine have had an …

The end of “demographic dividends” as well as the beginning of the current economic and financial crisis placed Russia … and Ukraine’s pension reform problems high on the public agenda. Up until now, the countries hesitated to substantially …