This paper provides an assessment of Russia's long-term growth prospects. In particular, it addresses the question of the medium- and long-term sustainability of the country's currently high growth rates. Starting from the notion that Russia's fast economic expansion in recent years has...

This dissertation contributes to several fields of international macroeconomics. Chapter 2 presents a new dataset and new evidence on the invoicing pattern in international trade for a large panel of countries. It goes into detail explaining the motivation to set prices in different currencies,...