We test the extent to which growth in the 11 CIS countries (excluding Russia) was associated with developments in … Russia, overall, as well as through the trade, financial and remittance channels over the last decade or so. The results … point to the continued existence of economic links between the CIS countries and Russia, though these links may have altered …

This paper studies how output fluctuations in Russia are transmitted internationally. Using vector autoregression (VAR …) and dynamic panel models, the paper finds that Russia's output fluctuations are an important driver of output fluctuations …