[From the Introduction]. The aim of this paper, therefore, is to analyse whether the dynamics of EU-Belarus relations … leverage over the country. A first section briefly reviews the EU’s policy towards Belarus since the coming to power of … Belarus, by effectively ending the subsidies. Thirdly, we analyse Lukashenko’s efforts to offset the effects of the oil and …

[From the Introduction]. The aim of this paper, therefore, is to analyse whether the dynamics of EU-Belarus relations … leverage over the country. A first section briefly reviews the EU’s policy towards Belarus since the coming to power of … Belarus, by effectively ending the subsidies. Thirdly, we analyse Lukashenko’s efforts to offset the effects of the oil and …

This paper investigates the impacts of export controls in Russia and Ukraine on wheat worldmarket price transmission … during the 2007/2008 global food crisis. Russia and Ukraine aimedto reduce wheat exports induced by extraordinarily high … Ukraine. Although instability increased on the worldmarkets itself, we have shown that the increase in the market instability …

This paper documents and analyses gross job flows and their determinants in Ukraine using a unique data set of more … connection with other evidence we infer from this that Ukraine is only at the beginning of the restructuring process. The most …

Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual manufacturing census data from 1985 to 2000, we find that Soviet … reforming Russia than in “gradualist” Ukraine, as did the estimated effects of privatization and competitive pressures from …

across the distribution of wages in Ukraine during communism (1986), the start of transition (1991), and after Ukraine …

This paper documents and analyses gross job flows and their determinants in Ukraine using a data set of more than 2200 …