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 … errorcorrection model (MSVECM), we find that the temporary export restrictions induced negativeeffects on wheat markets in Russia and …

Russia. Beginning with a model of organizational culture developed in the USA, the paper presents a multi-method analysis of … culture and effectiveness in a transition economy. We argue that effectiveness in Russia relies more on adaptability and … flexibility than in the USA. Furthermore, the legacy of the communist era forces firms in Russia to deal with a workforce with a …

complementarity in the practice. The model is estimated on panel data for workers and firms in Russia, facilitating identification …

real exchange rate misalignments for Poland and Russia during the 1990s using the Beveridge and Nelson (1981) decomposition … generate different levels of misalignment and different responses to exogenous shocks. The average misalignment in Russia is … crisis. The half life of an exogenous shock is found to be much shorter for Poland than for Russia in the pre-crisis period …

-to-job shifts of workers, development of an informal labour market, etc.). The transformation in Russia has witnessed an increase in …

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 …

advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent …