This note isolates an overlooked economic force for the Ruble to appreciate in response to international sanctions … limiting exports to Russia. The economic intuition is that when Russians are unable to buy the mix of foreign goods they wish …

that affect the equilibrium exchange rate. The dynamic behavior of the ruble exchange rate following Russia's military …

The sharp devaluation of the ruble in 2014 increased the real returns to Russians from working in a global online labor … the predictions of bargaining models, there was little to no pass-through of the ruble price changes in to wages. There …

Political and economic transition is often blamed for Russia's 40% surge in deaths between 1990 and 1994. Highlighting … the campaign's end explains a large share of the mortality crisis - implying that Russia's transition to capitalism and …

countries, to Russia's earlier history, and to Russia's income distribution today? Careful weighing of an eclectic data set … of European Russia. In 1904, on the eve of military defeat and the 1905 Revolution, Russian income inequality was … States, and Russia itself. We also note how the interplay of some distinctive fiscal and relative-price features of Imperial …

This paper examines the effect of banking on economic growth in modern Russia. To overcome simultaneity and selection …

. This paper uses a panel dataset from Russia, an economy in which consumer loans grew at an astounding rate - from about US … consumer borrowing increased very rapidly in Russia, the authors find that only 41% of respondents demonstrate understanding of …

(namely, from Cyprus and British Virgin Islands) across Russia and compare them with the benchmark group of genuine foreign … investors in Russia. We further study the determinants of the fraction of round-trip investment in total foreign investment in … large fraction of round-trip investment in Russia is concentrated in real estate and financial sectors, our results point to …

developing economies circa 1910: Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC). These four countries encompassed more than 50 percent of …