The VIII International Conference in Economics and Finance took place in Minsk on December 21. The event was held by BEROC Economic Research Center.

A chapter by Kateryna Bornukova and Igor Livshits titled The Impact of the Russian crisis on the Belarusian economy: the trade channel is published in a book The Russian Economy under Putin edited by Torbjörn Becker and Susanne Oxenstierna.

Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies (BISS) and BEROC Economic Research Center organized the expert meeting “Argentina – Belarus: a New Opening?” with H. E. Ricardo Lagorio, the Ambassador of the Argentine Republic to the Russian Federation, as the keynote speaker.

This year conference was focused on existing constraints and also highlighted initiatives that could help to create an equal society. Lev Lvovskiy, Research Fellow, represented BEROC at the conference with the Presentation "What is Good, Bad, and What Could be Done with Gender Equality in Belarus".

The chapter reveals that technology transfer offices (TTOs), centres for entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education as important success factors for academics spin-offs and knowledge commercialisation. Practical implications for entrepreneurship university and other stakeholders and discussed.

The paper "Politicized trade: What drives withdrawal of trade preferences?" by Arevik Mkrtchyan was published in the International Journal Economics Letters