We examine Russian imports since a coalition of countries imposed sanctions on exports to Russia. As Russia no longer …) utilizing a difference-in-difference approach. Our dataset covers exports to Russia at the HS6-level of disaggregation from 26 … sanctioning and 14 non-sanctioning countries during 2018-2023. We find that the exports of sanctioning countries to Russia fell …

in how firms perceive Russia-related sanctions. Even after controlling for firm-level characteristics, cross … macroeconomic linkages in explaining these differences. We show that the Russia's inward and outward FDI stocks and high levels of … imports and exports with Russia only partially explain the cross-country variation, leaving a nontrivial share of variation …

conflict between Russia and Ukraine. The impact of the conflict on Russia may have been amplified by sanctions imposed by … Western countries. However, as Russia is heavily dependent on exports of natural re-sources, the oil price decline starting in …

Taking the multilateral sanctions program launched against Russia in 2014 as a case study, this paper investigates the … studies is employed to construct counterfactuals. The estimation results demonstrate that in Russia following sanctions and … imports introduced by Russia boosted the domestic agricultural sector, resulting in higher agricultural productivity and farm …

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 …