In recent years, Mongolian and Chinese relationship is becoming stronger. China is the biggest trading partner that it takes 84% of total Mongolian export and the largest country that invests in our mining sector, which is the main export, is China. Tourists from China are also growing and...

In this paper, we argue that the ECB’s unconventional monetary policy announcements have generated significant spillover effects in Russia and Eastern Europe. The hypothesis is tested using OLS estimations of event-based regressions on monetary policy event dummies and seven financial...

The article analyzes the transition period in the former Soviet republics. It outlines and examines a "triple transition" in newly independent states, namely, political, economic and structural challenges. Further, the study considers more closely economic processes and looks at four possible...

The paper analyzes the initial output decline in transition economies by estimating a cross-section model stressing two major factors - conflicts and the legacies of the Soviet period. We link the Soviet legacies in place at the outset of the transition to the subsequent path for the development...

This paper develops a dynamic rational expectations general equilibrium framework that links house value to fundamental economic variables such as income growth, demographics, migration and land supply. Our framework is general and can handle non-stationary dynamics as well as structural changes...

This paper demonstrates that the allocation of household savings to State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in China, and not to the increasing share of private firms, explains both the patterns of capital flows (FDI entries and the accumulation of foreign assets) and the drop in the consumption share...

This paper examines structural change in the Russian economy in 1990-2001, as measured by the changing composition of output and consumption, using international panel data sets as a frame of reference. It calculates a series of indexes to determine the extent to which the Russian economy is...

The paper investigates determinants of investments in state capacity and institutional change in contemporary Ukraine. After formulating a simple sequential two-stage model of investments in state capacity, the paper estimates autoregressive distributed lag and vector autoregressive models to...

The role of investment, in particularly foreign direct investment (FDI), is regarded as one of the most important contributors of economic growth. The past quarter century has witnessed remarkable growth in FDIs flow all over the world. This is due to the fact that many countries, especially...