The report reviews key issues in energy trade and cooperation between the EU and CIS countries. It describes historical trends of oil and gas demand in the EU, other European and CIS countries and offers demand forecasts until 2030. Recent developments in oil and gas production and exports from...

Originally the Laffer Curve was formulated in a macroeconomic context, for which reason it is not applicable to individual taxes, but rather to a certain average aggregate tax. The 'corrections' to the Laffer Curve are based on a factor of time. High importance is the question – in which...

The report reviews key issues in energy trade and cooperation between the EU and CIS countries. It describes historical trends of oil and gas demand in the EU, other European and CIS countries and offers demand forecasts until 2030. Recent developments in oil and gas production and exports from...

The paper investigates the peculiarities of the models of economic development of Georgia and Russia. Taking into account the catch-up effect, the paper shows adjusted economic growth indicators of these countries during the post-Soviet period. Due to the presence of necroeconomy in both...

In post-Soviet economies, the decrease in the share of industry was not due to the growth of high-quality innovative services but, rather, an immediate decline in industrial production. The reason for this was the phenomenon of “necroeconomy” which combines so-called dead enterprises...