afterward in Russia and other former Soviet Union countries. Before the crisis a banking failure arose owing to the coexistence …

Ukraine's economic performance has been anemic since the early 1990s. A major impediment to productivity growth has … institutional weakness in Ukraine and quantify the long-term growth impact of catching-up to Poland in terms of the quality of major … most optimistic scenario, where institutional gaps are fully addressed, Ukraine would need 15 years to catch up to Poland …

This paper discusses payments arrears in the Russian Federation and Ukraine, with emphasis on the gas and electric …

This paper estimates bond-by-bond ""haircuts""-realized investor losses-in recent debt restructurings in Russia …, Ukraine, Pakistan, Ecuador, Argentina, and Uruguay. We consider both external and domestic retructurings. Haircuts are …

Under imperfect competition, Russia and Ukraine may choose to deviate from optimal tax considerations which suggest use … through an origin-based VAT on intra-CIS energy trade. The paper shows that Ukraine may try to capture part of the tax revenue … if it has monopsony power. It is far from clear whether Ukraine would succeed in shifting the rents through taxation …

lowering their inflation to more moderate rates. Inflation rates in the Baltics, Russia, and other countries of the former …

This paper explores sources of the output collapse in Russia during transition. A modified growth accounting framework … productivity are assessed using data on sub-national regions within Russia. Privatization and entry of private firms are found to …

This paper investigates whether the linkages between economic growth in Russia and growth in other countries in the …