The author provides a detailed analysis of Russia's monetary policy in 2010. He speaks about the inflation, balance of payments and foreign currency market. The paper provides measures taken by the government in the sphere of monetary policy

The present research deals with the effect capital flows have on Russia's macroeconomic indicators. Numerous nations have recently completed the so-called liberalization of the capital and financial account, i.e. have lifted restrictions on capital flows. That is why looking into the impact...

This paper deals with Russia's monetary policy in 2011. The authors analyze Russia's money morket, inflationary development, main measures in the monetary policy, the balance of payments and the RUR exchange rate

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...

In recent years the discussion of the role played by reserve currencies in the world economy has reached a new level. Problems caused by the domination of a single reserve currency have not yet been resolved and it remains unclear when and how they will be solved in the future. At the same time,...