The taxation reform in the oil and oil-refining industries in 2014 – the ‘tax maneuver' – was designed to boost the performance of domestic oil refineries. In late 2015, the planned reduction of export duty was suspended in order to keep unchanged the volume of tax-generated revenues...

Russian Abstract: Снижение издержек международной торговли вследствие технологического прогресса, а также либерализации торговых отношений по всему миру, привело к...

Russian Abstract: На сегодняшний день одним из наиболее используемых инструментов для анализа международной торговли является гравитационная модель торговли....

As seen by the period-end results of Q4 2019, the manufacturing and extractive sectors of the Russian economy once again displayed a near-zero growth, while production of electric energy, gas and water declined. Growth slowdown in the extractive sector occurred as a result of the implementation...

From early 2017, Rosstat began to apply OKVED 2 – the new All-Russian Classifier of Economic Activities, thus necessitating extreme caution in interpreting the industrial production statistics. The results of calculations performed by the Gaidar Institute point to the persistent presence of...

Russian Abstract: Целью работы является проверка гипотез о влиянии реального эффективного обменного курса рубля, уровня предпринимательской уверенности, цен на...

The trend that first became visible in early 2016 – decline giving way to zero rates of growth – towards the end of H1 had spread across a majority of segments of the economy's real sector. The lack of a noticeable domestic demand and dependence upon foreign equipment supplies coupled with...

Decomposition of Russian GDP growth rates has been performed to assess conditions that would enable Russia to achieve economic growth rates surpassing the worldwide average. In 2017, the contribution of fundamental factors of production (labour, capital, total factor productivity) to Russian GDP...

The paper contains the results of theoretical development and empirical verification of spatial gravity model of Russian trade. The authors conclude that the spatial variables and especially the location of the state border checkpoints have a significant effect on the volume and routes of...

Russian Abstract: В марте-апреле 2021 г. соглашение ОПЕК+ по-прежнему сдерживало рост в добывающем секторе. Тем не менее трендовая составляющая в динамике производства...