At the beginning of 2013 the economic activity continued to slow down – the process that started in 2012. In February 2013 the investments in fixed assets growth rates made only 100.3% in annual Terms

On December 14, 2012 Federal State Statistics Service published updated data on volumes and dynamics of investment in fixed assets in Q2 and Q3 2012. As a result, the figure for the investment in fixed assets growth rates in January-September 2012 against the corresponding period of the previous...

In January-May 2014, capital investments in real terms amounted to 96.2% on the respective index of the previous year. In the patiern of sources of investment funding, the share of own funds and banks' participation increased with a reduction of investment of federal budget funds. In Q1 2014, in...

The situation in the investment sphere remains tense despite the fact that in November 2013 growth rates of investments in capital assets entered the positive zone and amounted to 100.2% year on year after a drop in the previous three months. In January-November 2013, investments in capital...

Early in 2015, a further drop in investment activities was registered. In January-February 2015, investments in capital assets and the volumes of jobs in the building industry amounted to 93.6% and 96.7%, respectively, as compared to the relevant indices of the previous year

In November 2014, investments in capital assets amounted to 95.2%, while in January–November 2014, to 97.2% on the respective index of the previous year. A long-term reduction of the volumes of building jobs may result in a dramatic drop in business activities in the business and investment...

The Russian economy entered a period of investment pause in 2013. In terms of financial resources available for the investment process, it is characterized by substantial increase in enterprise self-financing for investment projects with cutbacks in financing through external borrowing. The...

We provide a simple rational bubble model demonstrating that a concentration of income is necessary and sufficient for the existence of equilibria with risky speculative bubbles. Income concentration among top earners leads to excess savings and depressed interest rates, which facilitate the...

We provide robust empirical evidence that uncovers the reason for the observed closer relationship between the bond market versus the equity market and the macroeconomy. Our results indicate that the tight bond market-macroeconomy link is not due to differences in the investor base, but instead...

We use a life cycle model of consumption and portfolio choice to study the effects of social security on the investment decisions of households for the European case. Our model is mainly based on the one developed by Cocco, Gomes, and Maenhout (2005). We extend it by unemployment risk using...