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)

News

Research Newsletter 1/2010 Online, PDF

New publications 

BOFIT Discussion Papers
1/10 Anatoly Peresetsky: Bank cost efficiency in Kazakhstan and Russia
24/09 Andrei Vernikov: Russian banking: The state makes a comeback?
23/09 Aaron Mehrotra and José R. Sánchez-Fung: Assessing McCallum and Taylor rules in a cross-section of emerging market economies 

BOFIT Online
10/09 Morten Anker, Daniel Buikema Fjærtoft, Jouko Rautava, Heli Simola and Laura Solanko: Russia, Finland and Norway: Economic Essays
9/09 Juuso Kaaresvirta, Iikka Korhonen, Mikael Mattlin, Aaron Mehrotra, Jenni Pääkkönen ja Jouko Rautava:
Katsaus Kiinan talouteen – BOFIT tietoisku 2009

Focus/Opinion – Expert view
2/10 Aaron Mehrotra: Government deficit – a cloud hanging over India’s robust growth
1/10 Zuzana Fungáčová and Sanna Kurronen: Bonds gaining ground as a finance tool in Russia

BOFIT forecasts
BOFIT forecast for Russia 2009-2011, published 29.9.2009
BOFIT forecast for China 2009-2011, published 29.9.2009

 

Events

BOFIT Seminars

- 8.3.2010 Rajeev K. Goel (Illinois State University and BOFIT): Economic Growth in BRIC countries
- 17.3.2010 Veronika Belousova (State University – Higher School of Economics, Moscow and BOFIT): Does Geographic Expansion Improve Branch Bank Efficiency? The Case of Russia

 

Articles

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
Heli Simola: Trade with Russia and its importance for Finnish companies

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

 

Visiting Researchers Programme

BOFIT welcomes applications for posts in its Visiting Researchers Programme. Scholarships for 3–12 months are available  for high-level research projects in areas pertinent to the Institute's research objectives. However, senior scholars seeking shorter research visits will also be considered. Scholars focusing on the Russian or Chinese economy are particularly encouraged to apply.

The application period for the Visiting Researchers' Programme for 2010 has closed. BOFIT will release an announcement regarding the programme for 2011 in the spring of next year.