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Iceberg Effect: Is Russia Facing Banking Crisis?
Financial Stability
Economics
Iceberg Effect: Is Russia Facing Banking Crisis?
Vlasta Demyanenko

The slowdown in the Russian economy has provoked concerns about an immediate threat of a succession of defaults and a coming banking crisis. Participants in the Financial Congress discussed whether these gloomy expectations were justified.

‘Archipelago of Isolated Economies’: World During a Storm
Economics
‘Archipelago of Isolated Economies’: World During a Storm
July 21, 2025   |   Olga Kuvshinova

What tectonic shifts are occurring in the world economy and global trade, who are the potential winners and losers in this process, and how the global financial and economic landscape will alter after the storm are the questions addressed by Financial Congress participants.

Russia’s ‘Green’ Risks
Economics
Russia’s ‘Green’ Risks
July 21, 2025   |   Econs

While advanced economies were promoting the climate agenda as ideology, the Global South was investing in renewable energies and new technology markets. Energy transition is still underway in both ‘worlds’. What this means to Russia was discussed at the Financial Congress.

Economic Mirror: Current Situation in Russian Labour Market
Economics
Macroeconomics
Economic Mirror: Current Situation in Russian Labour Market
July 21, 2025   |   Irina Ryabova

The Russian labour market is gradually cooling, but high unemployment does not threaten it. The main challenge for the economy is not so much labour shortages as a lack of highly qualified specialists, analyzed the participants of the Financial Congress.

‘Investors Need to Be Buttered Up’
Finance
‘Investors Need to Be Buttered Up’
July 21, 2025   |   Vlasta Demyanenko

To double the Russian stock market's capitalization, it’s necessary to increase the volume of public offerings multi-fold. Participants at the Financial Congress discussed whether this is realistic and what should be done to attract that many issuers and investors to the mark...

Growth, Growth Potential, and Inflation
Economics
Macroeconomics
Growth, Growth Potential, and Inflation
July 21, 2025   |   Econs

Is it possible to ‘buy’ economic growth with high inflation, how demand ‘accumulated’ over years, what investments increase productivity, and where forecasters make a mistake: abstracts from the Financial Congress session dedicated to economic growth.

Real Estate Market and Monetary Policy: Searching for Balance
Opinions
Economics
Macroeconomics
Real Estate Market and Monetary Policy: Searching for Balance
July 18, 2025   |   Zhanna Smirnova

Although the real estate market is a separate sector, it is characterised by what is called ‘macro-criticality’. This means that the effects of changes in the market extend beyond it and may have an impact on macroeconomic stability in general.

Behavioural Economics for Financial Literacy
Opinions
Economics
Behavioural Economics for Financial Literacy
July 8, 2025   |   Elena Nikishina, Vladimir Ivanov

Suboptimal and erroneous financial decisions people make often stem from cognitive biases. Their effect can be mitigated by impacting two key aspects – people’s behaviour and the decision-making environment.

How Population Ageing Affects Inflation
Opinions
Economics
How Population Ageing Affects Inflation
June 27, 2025   |   Dmitry Tereshchenko, Vasily Shcherbakov

The impact of population ageing on inflation remains contentious, as researchers’ opinions differ as to whether ageing has a deflationary or proinflationary effect. Our work uses data from the Russian regions to show that an elderly population has a proinflationary effect.

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National Labour Market Rigidities During the Period of the Structural Transformation of the Economy: Unknown Opportunities Arising from the Known Datasource
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Heterogeneous Inflation Expectations Across Economic Agents: Implications for Monetary Policy
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Synchronisation of Business Cycles in Russia and China
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inflation expectations
What Information is Important for Households’ Inflation Expectations: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
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Nowcasting Russian GDP in a Mixed-Frequency DSGE Model with a Panel of Non-Modelled Variables
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