In Russia, the pre-conditions for a successful transition to inflation targeting are beginning to emerge. The economy remains highly dependent upon the external economic conjuncture, but the financial crisis made for a steep increase in the demand of commercial banks for refinancing by the CBR....

This work is aimed at the study of the state of regional banking system in the Russian Federation and revealing their influence on the investment processes (investments in the real sector of economy) in the regions. The authors analyzed main characteristics of regional banking systems. Aggregate...

Our results demonstrate that over the period in question the CBR employed a variety of intermediary monetary policy targets: interest rates, money supply and balances of the accounts of commercial banks with the Bank of Russia. The diversity of the intermediary targets can be attributed...

In this paper the authors tried to confirm that in implementing its monetary policy the CBR employed a variety of intermediary targets. These included interest rates, money supply and the balances of the accounts of commercial banks with the CBR

Recent slowdown of economic growth forces Russian political authorities to seek for policy measures to support economic activity. Monetary expansion is considered as one of the possible alternatives, which we consider inappropriate. During the whole post-crisis period monetary authorities of...

The article is devoted to discussing Russian economic policy during the crisis amid coordinated G20 decisions and corresponding policy of leading economies. The authors briefly cover the history of G20 summits, proposals of Russian delegation and analyze Russian economic policy in the light of...

The primary purpose of this paper is to test the hypothesis of capital mobility reduction in the wake of the global financial crisis of 2008-2009. Through the constructed models we tested hypotheses about the long- and short-term mobility of global capital by estimating the correlation between...

Every country faces what economists call an intertemporal (across time) budget constraint, which requires that its government's future expenditures, including the servicing of its outstanding official debt, be covered by its government's future receipts when measured in present value. The...

Стремительное развитие финансовых рынков, появление новых и все более сложных финансовых инструментов, эволюция платежных систем – все это приводит к...

Russian Abstract: Разразившийся в декабре 2014 г. кризис на валютном рынке, а также предпринятые для его преодоления денежными властями и правительством меры (в частности,...