, contributing to the buildup of vulnerabilities. Ukraine remains current on all its payments to the IMF, and the authorities have …

Cancellation of Stand-by Arrangement (SBA). Despite tangible progress under the SBA, the crisis in Ukraine has increased its …

Following the 2008/9 financial crisis and deep recession, a cyclical recovery took hold in Ukraine, supported by a …

This Selected Issues paper analyzes the Ukrainian business cycle. It focuses on the price of steel—Ukraine’s major … might then mitigate them. The paper also develops core inflation indicators for Ukraine to better distinguish underlying …

This Selected Issues paper investigates the economic importance of institutions in Ukraine, and attempts to quantify … the stochastic-frontier model. The implications of the results for the specific case of Ukraine are discussed. The paper … also analyzes external risks and opportunities for Ukraine …

Ukraine. The paper examines how rising gas prices might elevate macrofiscal risks in Ukraine’s state enterprise sector. It … assesses Ukraine’s equilibrium exchange rate mainly based on the macroeconomic balance approach, and provides an account of the … traditional criteria for determining whether a peg or float fits Ukraine’s economic characteristics …

This Selected Issues paper presents a snapshot of some economic issues for Ukraine. It analyzes risks for the banking … sector stability. It investigates Ukraine’s real equilibrium exchange rate, drawing chiefly from cross-country panel …-data analysis, and the experience of other neighboring East-European countries. The results suggest that Ukraine will likely …

This Selected Issues paper examines the main factors explaining Ukraine’s growth performance so far, assesses whether … in Ukraine and compares the results with studies of other transition economies …