This paper provides an assessment of Russia’s long-term growth prospects. In particular, it addresses the question of … Russia’s fast economic expansion in recent years has benefited from a number of singular factors such as the unprecedented … rise in oil prices, the paper presents new evidence on Russia’s oil price dependency using a Vector Error Correction Model …

Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual manufacturing census data from 1985 to 2000, we find that Soviet … Russia displayed job flow behavior quite different from market economies, with very low rates of job reallocation that bore … reforming Russia than in "gradualist" Ukraine, as did the estimated effects of privatization and competitive pressures from …