The article considers different approaches, all based on detailed statistical data, to determine which industries and commodities have high, medium, or low sensitivity to exchange rate fluctuations. The authors conclude that any exchange rate policy is an inappropriate tool to influence the...

Based on an analysis of exchange rates and industrial production in the world's twenty-five largest economies during the current global crisis, the author challenges the commonly held concept that the absorption of exogenous shocks that stabilizes the real sector of the economy is one of the...

The transition of the systemic crisis in Russia into open form in August 1998 made corrections necessary in the social policy being pursued. Such corrections will be effective only in the event that the positive, and not only the negative, results of the reforms of 1992-98 are taken into account.

During the course of the economic reform in Russia, a critical situation has developed in a number of regional labor markets. It is characterized by: the lack of a mechanism for the "self-regulation" of the regional labor market; a noticeable trend toward the spontaneous production of the crisis...

This article attempts to analyze the dynamics and logic of economic reforms in Russia based on observations and research on economic indicators of recent years.