The paper reviews the recent conduct of monetary policy and the central bank’s rule-based behavior in Russia. Using … different policy rules, we test whether the central bank in Russia reacts to changes in inflation, output gap and the exchange … rate in a consistent and predictable manner. Our results indicate that during the period of 1993-2002 the Bank of Russia …

The research presented in this paper is undertaken in response to the debate on capital flight from Russia. This debate … purpose of the paper is to examine capital flight from Russia within the institutional environment in which it occurs and to … argue that in Russia’s case capital flight might be considered not just a consequence, as some researchers have argued …

unemployed workers in transitional Russia. We use pooled data from rounds 5-9 of the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS … metropolitan areas of Moscow and St. Petersburg differs substantially from the behavior of workers living elsewhere in Russia. The … most frequently used search strategy in Russia, as in other countries, is contacting friends and relatives for job leads. …