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 …

finding that all types of banks in Russia increase their lending before presidential elections supports the view that the … authorities in an electoral autocracy like Russia can influence lending of both private and state-owned banks for political …

The microeconomic drivers of medium- and short-term income mobility in Russia over the period 1996-2016 are …-poor patterns of growth may accompany Russia's notoriously high levels of inequality. Controlling for other personal and household …

This paper studies the distribution of politically motivated intergovernmental transfers in Russia focusing on the case … findings are in line with the argument that the regional governments in Russia play an important role in the distribution of …

resource-richest and most unequal countries in the world – Russia. While previous literature produced contradictory findings …; and 2) the oil tax formula being tied directly to the international oil prices making oil price shocks an exogenous … measure of change in oil rents. When we look at the period with oil tax revenues shared with the regional governments, we find …

Russia has witnessed a high number of bank failures over the last two decades. Using monthly data for 2002 … provide mixed evidence that political cycles matter for the occurrence of bank failures in Russia. …

This paper uses a survey among students at European universities to explore whether Russia's invasion of Ukraine has … affected attitudes toward European integration. Some respondents completed the survey just before Russia's assault on February …