This paper aims to study the joint effects of the 2004 EU Enlargement and Russia's entry into the WTO, and the effects of an eventual Russia-Enlarged EU Free Trade Agreement (FTA). The paper is organized as follows: in Section I, it starts with the brief description of the model used. The...

The paper reviews the recent conduct of monetary policy and the central bank's rule-based behavior in Russia. Using different policy rules, we test whether the central bank in Russia reacts to changes in inflation, output gap and the exchange rate in a consistent and predictable manner. Our...

The paper reviews the recent conduct of monetary policy and the central bank's rule-based behavior in Russia. Using different policy rules, we test whether the central bank in Russia reacts to changes in inflation, output gap and the exchange rate in a consistent and predictable manner. Our...

The paper reviews the recent conduct of monetary policy and the central bank's rule-based behavior in Russia. Using different policy rules, we test whether the Bank of Russia reacts to changes in inflation, the output gap and the exchange rate in a consistent and predictable manner. Our results...

Books reviewed: Free Trade under Fire, Douglas A. Irwin, author. Secondary Privatization in Transition Economies: The Evolution of Enterprise Ownership in the Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovenia, Barbara Blaszczyk, author, Iraj Hoshi and Richard Woodward (eds.). Going Alone: The Case for...

Books reviewed in this article: Accountability and Legitimacy in the European Union, edited by A. Arnull and D. Wincott Accountability in the European Union, by C. Harlow Les Commissaires Europeans: Technocrates, diplomates ou politiques? by J. Joana and A. Smith Between Empire and Alliance:...

This paper extends the work of Kaminsky and Schmukler (2003) to the Baltic and Central Eastern European new Member States of the European Union, to test if the same short-run increase in cyclical volatility arising from financial integration is observed in this specific sample of "emerging...

Superterrorism: Policy Responses, edited by L. Freedman The European Union: How Does it Work?, edited by E. Bomberg and A. Stubb European Union Foreign Policy: What it Is and What it Does, by H. Smith Foreign Ministries in the European Union: Integrating Diplomats, edited by B. Hocking and D....