In The article provides estimates of short-run and medium-run exchange rate pass-through into domestic prices in Russia during the period of 2000–2012 using vector error correction model. Exchange rate pass-through asymmetry estimates, its assessments on different sub-periods and exchange rate...

Policy goals of the Central bank of Russia

The present research deals with the effect capital flows have on Russia’s macroeconomic indicators. Numerous nations have recently completed the so-called liberalization of the capital and financial account, i.e. have lifted restrictions on capital flows. That is why looking into the impact...

In Russia, the pre-conditions for a successful transition to inflation targeting are beginning to emerge. The economy remains highly dependent upon the external economic conjuncture, but the financial crisis made for a steep increase in the demand of commercial banks for refinancing by the CBR....

The paper suggests original aggregate financial stability indices in RF, using which one can get a quantitative assessment of the probability of the rise of financial instability.

Recent slowdown of economic growth forces Russian political authorities to seek for policy measures to support economic activity. Monetary expansion is considered as one of the possible alternatives, which we consider inappropriate. During the whole post-crisis period monetary authorities of...

This study develops the approach of corruption measurement based on the income-expenditure comparison. Using micro-level data on reported household earnings, expenditures and assets provided by Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey for the period 2000-2009 we find that households with workers...

The primary purpose of this paper is to test the hypothesis of capital mobility reduction in the wake of the global financial crisis of 2008-2009. Through the constructed models we tested hypotheses about the long- and short-term mobility of global capital by estimating the correlation between...