The use of large datasets for macroeconomic forecasting has received a great deal of interest recently. Boosting is one possible method of using high-dimensional data for this purpose. It is a stage-wise additive modelling procedure, which, in a linear specification, becomes a variable selection...

This book addresses Russia's new assertiveness and the role of energy as a key factor in shaping the country's behavior in international relations and in building political and economic power domestically since the 1990s