Western sanctions exposed Russia’s key vulnerabilities - dependence on Western capital and advanced technology, with knock-on effects in other sectors. In response, Russia launched a policy of import substitution and attempted to diversify to non-Western countries to mitigate the impact of...

The workshop is aimed at bringing together scholars involved with various aspects of banking in emerging markets, including but not limited to those of Central and Eastern Europe, CIS countries, Latin America and China. The organizing committee welcomes submissions of both empirical and...

We study the impact of global financial sanctions on the Russian banks and economy. Financial sanctions were consecutively imposed between 2014 and 2019, allowing potentially-targeted (but not yet sanctioned) banks to adjust their international and domestic exposures. Compared to similar other...

The workshop organizers invite researchers to submit empirical papers covering all areas of banking and finance in emerging markets. Possible topics include but are not limited to the following: - banking and institutions; - political economy of banking; - financial stability in emerging...

The literature on institutions and development has often cast societies in a light that contrasts the more inclusive, open-access, and equal ones with other less inclusive ones, but the scholarship comparing Imperial China and Premodern Europe does not fit easily in this framework. We provide a...

Co-authores: Valeriya Dinger (University of Osnabrück and the Leeds University Business School), Ragnar Juelsrud (Norges Bank) and Karolis Liaudinskas (Norges Bank) In this paper, we investigate how trade shocks propagate to the real economy through banking sector. We exploit an exogenous trade...

It ist examined, how FinTech can lower investment barriers and help households move toward optimal risk-taking, using a unique account-level data on consumption, investments, and FinTech usage from Ant Group. During our sample period, China experienced a rapid increase in FinTech penetration in...

Topics: - Economic theory in the face of the fourth industrial revolution; - Technology factors in theoretical economic models; - New challenges for the digital economy; - The impact of a new technology on an economic development, a labor market and inequalities (big data, blockchain and...

The workshop will provide opportunities for scholars performing research in the field of energy economics, environmental economics and their policies, to discuss their research and to exchange ideas. Researchers are invited to submit both empirical and theoretical papers that deal with the...

The goal of this workshop is to bring together European applied macroeconomists to discuss current frontier research on a regular basis. Applications from economists from all French and worldwide institutions are welcomed in all fields of applied macroeconomics and applied econometrics including...