BOFIT conducts high-level research on transition economics and monitors economic developments in Russia and China.  

 

SUOMEN PANKKI
Snellmaninaukio
PO Box 160, 00101 Helsinki, Finland
Phone +358 10 8311

The Bank of Finland Institute for Economies in Transition (BOFIT)

New publications

BOFIT Discussion Papers 
16/10 Christophe J. Godlewski, Zuzana Fungáčová and Laurent Weill: Stock market reaction to debt financing arrangements in Russia
15/10 Eric Girardin and Konstantin A. Kholodilin: How helpful are spatial effects in forecasting the growth of Chinese provinces?
14/10 Asel Isakova: Currency substitution in the Economies of Central Asia: How much does it cost?
13/10 Aaron Mehrotra and Alexey A. Ponomarenko: Wealth effects and Russian money demand
12/10 Alexey A. Ponomarenko and Sergey A. Vlasov: Russian fiscal policy during the financial crisis
11/10 Michael Funke and Hao Yu: The emergence and spatial distribution of Chinese seaport cities
10/10 Aaron Mehrotra, José R. Sánchez-Fung: China’s monetary policy and the exchange rate
9/10 Allen N. Berger, Iftekhar Hasan, Iikka Korhonen, Mingming Zhou: Does diversification increase or decrease bank risk and performance? Evidence on diversification and the risk-return tradeoff in banking
8/10 Alexei Karas, William Pyle, Koen Schoors: The effect of deposit insurance on Market Disipline: Evidence from a natural experiment on deposit flows

BOFIT Online
3/10 Iikka Korhonen, Laura Solanko, Vesa Korhonen, Maija Sirkjärvi ja Pekka Sutela: Venäjä kriisin jälkeen
2/10 Kaarina Piipponen: Suomen ja Neuvostoliiton välisen clearingmaksujärjestelmän purkaminen ja neuvostovelkojen loppuhoito
1/10 Iikka Korhonen: Valtion omistamien pankkien ylivalta Kiinassa säilyy

Focus/Opinion – Expert view
8/10 Iikka Korhonen: Ukraine’s new IMF programme buys time for reforms
7/10 Valentina Potapova and Konstantin Styrin: Constructing a Leading GDP Indicator for Russia
6/10 Seija Lainela: Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan form customs union 

BOFIT forecasts
BOFIT forecast for Russia 2010-2012, published 25.3.2010
BOFIT forecast for China 2010-2012, published 25.3.2010

 

Events

Upcoming conferences
Banking in emerging economies
11th Annual Bank of Finland/CEPR Conference co-organized by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Helsinki, 7–8 October 2010

BOFIT Seminars
- 14.9.2010 Andrei Yakovlev (Higher School of Economics and BOFIT): Reform of public procurement system in Russia in 2005-2006: Key ideas and main results.
- 5.10.2010 Andrei Yakovlev (Higher School of Economics and BOFIT): State-business relations in Russia in the 2000s: From the capture to a variety of exchange models?

 

Articles

Pekka Sutela: Russia's Response to the Global Financial Crisis, Carnegie Policy Outlook, July 2010
Zuzana Fungáčová and Laura Solanko: The Russian banking industry after the financial crisis – where to next?
Pekka Sutela: How strong is Russia's economic foundation?, CER October 2009 

Books

Laura Solanko: Essays on Russia's Economic Transition
Simon-Erik Ollus ja Heli Simola: Russia in the Finnish Economy
Aaron Mehrotra: Essays on Empirical Macroeconomics