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A Soviet legacy for present-day Russia is found in its resource dependency as well as its implicit exposition of resource rents from foreign trade in the national accounting. Estimating rents from the foreign trade of oil ...

The economic cooperation between Russia and China has increased notably during past couple of decades, although from a very low level. Despite the increase, economic dependency between countries remains relatively low and ...

This paper considers the development and current state of Russia’s think tank sector. As in Eastern Europe, international technical assistance played an important in development of Russian think tanks in 1990s. However ...

​Contrary to the focus on the events of the last two years (2014–2015) associated with Crimea and military conflict in Eastern Ukraine, I stress here that serious changes in Russian internal politics (with strong pressure ...

Statistical agencies release their preliminary estimates of quarterly GDP growth with a publication delay that ranges from four to eight weeks. Given this lack of timeliness, nowcasting methods have been developed to produce ...

The phenomenal economic growth in China and relative decline in Russia have made these two emerging economies more similar during the last quarter of the century. Both are large, middle-income countries dependent on foreign ...

Kesäkuussa 2016 järjestetty BOFIT Venäjä-tietoisku kartoitti Venäjän kehityksen ajankohtaisia aiheita. Tähän julkaisuun on koottu tietoiskun neljän esityksen keskeinen sisältö lyhyinä artikkeleina. Ensimmäinen artikkeli ...

​In this short paper, we emphasize the importance of reforms sequencing and discuss it in the context of potential educational and institutional reforms in Russia. As weak institutions correspond to a more binding constraint ...

​Venäjän arktisten alueiden merkitys koko maan talouden kannalta rajallinen, mutta siellä on merkittäviä luonnonvaroja ja Venäjällä alueita pidetään tärkeinä kansallisen turvallisuuden näkökulmasta. Venäjän arktisilla ...

Russia, Kazakhstan, and Belarus established the Eurasian Customs Union in 2010. Five years later, it became the Eurasian Economic Union. External tariffs have been harmonised and some internal trade barriers have been ...