События начала мая на финансовых рынках РФ и РК показали, что после существенного укрепления в предыдущие месяцы национальные валюты стали более чувствительны...

Analysis of the economic activity in the pre-crisis period of 2000-2008. shows a steady decrease in the efficiency of actual production in Russia. Many businesses come to a threshold of bankruptcy: the profitability and financial strength are low, their products are not competitive, sources of...

Population aging will impose a significant burden on European pay-as-you-go pension systems. This study presents an estimate of this burden for the four largest euro-area countries and assesses alternative reform approaches. With prudent and realistic assumptions, the present value of future...

Despite signs of recovery from the global financial crisis, the GDP growth rate for theIndian economy is likely to be between 5.8 to 6.1 per cent in 2009-10, below the 6.7per cent recorded in fiscal 2008-09. While there has been an improvement in Indianindustry, particularly the manufacturing...

This paper provides an outlook for the Indian economy in the light of theextraordinary global financial crisis, that started in the US, but which has nowtransformed into the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. TheIndian economy was slowing down even before the onset of global...

Since the advent of standard national accounts data over 60 years ago, economists have traditionally relied on monthly or quarterly data supplied by central statistical agencies for macroeconomic modelling and forecasting. However, technological advances of the past several years have resulted...

Since the advent of standard national accounts data over 60 years ago, economists have relied on monthly or quarterly data supplied by central statistical agencies for macroeconomics modelling and forecasting. However, technological advances of the past several years have resulted in new...

During the ongoing financial crisis the analysis of similar historical crises has gained more and more attention among economic researchers and forecasters. Existing studies, however, do not tackle the immense heterogeneity that is present in cross-country samples in a formal and consistent way....

At the end of the first half of the transitional period, this communication privides an overview of the preparations undertaken so fare and those required for the final changeover to the euro at the beginning of 2002. Two events are associated with the end of the transitional period: as from 1...