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Domestic and global economic effects of COVID-19 containment measures : How does Russia compare internationally?
(03.04.2020)
BOFIT Policy Brief 6/2020
BOFIT Policy Brief 6/2020
This note considers the potential impacts on Russia from drastic economy-wide measures used in various countries to “flatten the epidemiological curve” of the COVID-19 virus. We extend the analysis framework recently ...
Considerations on new Rosstat data on the contribution of Russia’s military goods sector to GDP growth in recent years
(02.12.2016)
BOFIT Policy Brief 11/2016
BOFIT Policy Brief 11/2016
This policy brief considers the newly clarified contributions of the military goods sector to economic growth in Russia from 2011 to 2015. The discussion is based on Rosstat’s recently released official data on disaggregated ...
How fast can Russia grow?
(16.12.2015)
BOFIT Policy Brief 10/2015
BOFIT Policy Brief 10/2015
In this note I gauge Russia’s future growth potential under various assumptions in a standard growth-accounting framework. Russia’s GDP growth during the next two decades will be substantially lower than during the previous ...
When are fixed exchange rates an appropriate policy tool for growth?
(11.08.2015)
BOFIT Policy Brief 8/2015
BOFIT Policy Brief 8/2015
This policy brief discusses how a fixed exchange rate regime (FERR) may promote economic growth by undermining the Balassa-Samuelson effect. When total factor productivity (TFP) is faster in the industrial sector than in ...
Structural change, rebalancing, and the danger of a middle-income trap in China
(20.06.2018)
BOFIT Policy Brief 6/2018
BOFIT Policy Brief 6/2018
China is currently experiencing a structural change toward tertiarization and an implied growth slowdown associated with it. The paper investigates whether this growth slowdown is merely cyclical or a negative trend, and ...
BOFIT Venäjä-tietoisku 2016
(23.06.2016)
BOFIT Policy Brief 5/2016
BOFIT Policy Brief 5/2016
Kesäkuussa 2016 järjestetty BOFIT Venäjä-tietoisku kartoitti Venäjän kehityksen ajankohtaisia aiheita. Tähän julkaisuun on koottu tietoiskun neljän esityksen keskeinen sisältö lyhyinä artikkeleina. Ensimmäinen artikkeli ...
Why the Chinese recovery will slow – some lessons from sectoral data
(06.08.2020)
BOFIT Policy Brief 8/2020
BOFIT Policy Brief 8/2020
The outlook for economic growth in China remains highly uncertain and dependent on factors such as domestic economic policy and recovery in external demand. We attempt to assess China’s short-term growth outlook with readily ...
Assessing the mid-term growth outlook for the Indian economy
(14.06.2021)
BOFIT Policy Brief 8/2021
BOFIT Policy Brief 8/2021
Since embarking on economic reform in 1991, India has experienced three decades of rapid economic development. Recently, however, there has been significant uncertainty about the growth outlook of the Indian economy in the ...
Are educational reforms necessarily growth-enhancing? Weak institutions as the cause of policy failure
(29.09.2016)
BOFIT Policy Brief 7/2016
BOFIT Policy Brief 7/2016
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 ...
Kiinan kiinteistösektorin kriisiytymisen vaikutuksista Kiinan talouteen ja euroalueelle
(08.12.2021)
BOFIT Policy Brief 12/2021
BOFIT Policy Brief 12/2021
Kiinassa kiinteistösektori ja rakentaminen toimivat talouskasvun vetureina viime vuosikymmenellä ja niiden merkitys taloudelle kasvoi poikkeuksellisen suureksi. Kasvu oli kuitenkin erittäin velkavetoista ja etenkin rakentajien ...