The external debt of many countries of the Baltics, Russia, and the former Soviet Union has been growing rapidly in …

We test the extent to which growth in the 11 CIS countries (excluding Russia) was associated with developments in … Russia, overall, as well as through the trade, financial and remittance channels over the last decade or so. The results … point to the continued existence of economic links between the CIS countries and Russia, though these links may have altered …

prominently in the Russian policy debate. This paper furthers the debate by estimating empirically Russia''s equilibrium real … trade. It suggests that Russia should target a significant medium-term current account deterioration and a real appreciation …

Starting in the early 1990s, the Baltics, Russia, and other (BRO) countries of the former Soviet Union initiated tax …

This paper explains the IMF''s impact on economic policies in Russia, focusing on where the IMF made a difference. The …

afterward in Russia and other former Soviet Union countries. Before the crisis a banking failure arose owing to the coexistence …

Russia. It shows that Belarus and Russia are economically closely linked but nevertheless do not fulfill all ""optimal …

This paper estimates the output gap in Russia using a utilization-adjusted production function approach, which we argue … when both capital and labor are at their estimated natural rates. The results suggest that the output gap in Russia was …

This paper documents the scale of capital flight from Russia, compares it with that observed in other countries, and …. The paper argues that capital flight from Russia can only be curbed through a medium-term reform strategy aimed at …