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Pension reform is a key policy challenge in Russia. This paper examines how pension spending could increase in Russia …
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Though many aspects of Russia's fiscal policy framework are close to best practice on paper, actual practice in recent …
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Local currency government bonds (OFZ bonds) are an important fixed-income instrument in Russia's financial markets. In …
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We build and estimate open economy two-bloc DSGE models to study the transmission and impact of shocks in Russia, Saudi …: Russia would benefit from a smaller state foot-print, while in Saudi Arabia, unless this is accompanied by structural reforms …
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We formulate the “High Liquidity Creation Hypothesis” (HLCH) that a proliferation in the core activity of bank liquidity creation increases failure probability. We test the HLCH in the context of Russian banking, which provides a natural field experiment due to numerous failures experienced...
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This paper explains the IMF`s impact on economic policies in Russia, focusing on where the IMF made a difference. The …
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Russia dramatically reduced its higher rates of personal income tax (PIT) in 2001 establishing a single marginal rate …
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inflation. In this paper, we show that a stable money demand function for Russia can be found for "effective broad money," which …
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This paper examines how regional disparities have evolved in Russia and how Russia’s system of intergovernmental fiscal … with federal systems of government, Russia stands out with its high reliance on direct taxes as a revenue source for its …
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This paper investigates empirically the drivers of financial imbalances ahead of the global financial crisis. Three factors may have contributed to the build-up of financial imbalances: (i) rising global imbalances (capital flows), (ii) monetary policy that might have been too loose, (iii)...
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