The paper reviews the recent conduct of monetary policy and the central bank’s rule-based behavior in Russia. Using … different policy rules, we test whether the central bank in Russia reacts to changes in inflation, output gap and the exchange … rate in a consistent and predictable manner. Our results indicate that during the period of 1993-2002 the Bank of Russia …

, which are enjoying special treatment by Russia. By contrast, the degree of financial development, as proxied by deposit and …

Russia has witnessed a high number of bank failures over the last two decades. Using monthly data for 2002 … provide mixed evidence that political cycles matter for the occurrence of bank failures in Russia. …

This paper uses a survey among students at European universities to explore whether Russia's invasion of Ukraine has … affected attitudes toward European integration. Some respondents completed the survey just before Russia's assault on February …

-marketshock structures of production. Tracking voting outcomes at the district level in Russia's presidential elections, we document …

We examine Russian imports since a coalition of countries imposed sanctions on exports to Russia. As Russia no longer …) utilizing a difference-in-difference approach. Our dataset covers exports to Russia at the HS6-level of disaggregation from 26 … sanctioning and 14 non-sanctioning countries during 2018-2023. We find that the exports of sanctioning countries to Russia fell …