In 2015, many countries had to deal with the weakening of their currencies. Issues regarding exchange rate management by the Central Banks have again become the focal point of heated debate. This article compares two approaches to devaluation of local currency under the pressure of external...

The Ruble exchange rate has been fluctuating hugely. The problem now is not so much the Ruble's weakness as instability of its exchange rate, volatility. The management of the Central Bank claims that stabilization of the Ruble exchange rate is not possible though it is the responsibility of the...

English Abstract: The article describes the features of the current stage of development of financial technologies. This process has become a reaction to the post-crisis tightening of regulatory requirements for traditional financial institutions and increasing credit risks. The introduction of...

Несмотря на ожидаемую нехватку пригодных для расширения сельскохозяйственного производства земель в мире, процессы забрасывания сельскохозяйственных земель...

We take a decision-theoretic view on the question of how to use instrumental variables and method of moments. Since prior beliefs play an inevitably strong role when instruments are possibly "weak", or when the number of instruments is large relative to the number of observations, it is...

We perform Bayesian analysis of the sequence of unknown means mi given observations Xi under the assumption that, for any k 0, the first k members X1, X2, …, Xk are normally distributed with the mean (m1,…, mk ) and a known covariance matrix. It is assumed that the parameters m1,…, mk,…...

Russian Abstract: Оценка моделей с изменяющимися во времени параметрами нашла широкое распространение в макроэкономических исследованиях, реализуемых в течение...

In this paper we compare two types of models for forecasting Russia’s GDP under the structural breaks. We consider models that allow breaks in a deterministic trend, in which the dates of structural breaks set exogenously, and more flexible class of models – with a stochastic trend. We show...

Following methodological approach proposed by Edwards, the paper estimates empirically Russia's equilibrium real exchange rate (ERER) for the period 1995–2003. ERER is defined as the relative price of non-tradables to tradables consistent with the simultaneous achievement of internal and...

In this work we build a Bayesian vector autoregression model to estimate the impact of global economic activity shocks, supply shocks in the global oil market, as well as speculative oil shocks on key macroeconomic variables of the Russian economy: GDP, household consumption, fixed capital...