We examine the importance of macroeconomic effects of changes in asset prices and credit aggregates for the Russian economy.  We show that the amplitude of the fluctuations of asset prices and lending was exceptionally large in 2006-2009.  This implies that the asset price and the lending...

The authors estimate a dynamic factor model for the cross-section of monetary and price indicators for Russia.  They extract the common part of the dataset's fluctuations and decompose it into structural shocks.  One of the shocks identified has empirical properties (in terms of impulse...