Working Papers


Working papers - academic research on economy aimed at enhancing the knowledge about economic processes, problems and trends through development of new theories and concepts. The results of these studies are published in leading international journals, as for example SAGE Knowledge, Journal of Economic Development, Research Policy (Science Direct)Baltic Journal of Economics, Eastern Economic Journal and etc.

Radzivon Marozau|Maryia Akulava|Radzivon Marozau|Aliaksandr Abrashkevich|Maribel Guerrero| 23.07.2020
Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Report: GEM Belarus 2019/2020
In this publication, we present the findings of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), a 2019 comprehensive study of various aspects of entrepreneurial activity conducted in Belarus for the first time by the Belarusian Economic Research and Outreach Center (BEROC) and International Finance Corporation (IFC) office in Belarus.
|Yaw Nyarko|Heitor Pelligrina| 30.06.2020
Traders in the Food Distribution Chain: Estimating Trade Costs and Markups from Price Data
The paper proposes a new method, which allows us to estimate trade costs and markups separately using only price data. The method explores the idea that the markups along the distribution chain of a good are shaped by the same final demand, and, therefore, respond similarly to a reduction in the price of a good at the initial point of the chain.
Viktar Fedaseyeu| 18.02.2020
Personal Financial Incentives and Corporate Campaign Contributions
The authors argue that low levels of corporate political participation can be rationalized by the financial incentives of employees and shareholders who are the ultimate source of corporate contributions. Since even large firm-level benefits are trivial for individuals with small equity-stakes, few people have sufficient incentives to contribute.
30.12.2019
Measuring fiscal multipliers for the Belarusian economy
This study is devoted to the theoretical concepts of fiscal multipliers and their assessment for the Belarusian economy, in particular the magnitudes of these multipliers for the revenue and spending parts of the budget of Belarus.
Radzivon Marozau| 06.12.2019
The Use of Information Technologies by Belarusian Business
This is the first of a series of works devoted to factors, barriers and the effect of information technology (hereinafter - IT) implementation by Belarusian small and medium enterprises (hereinafter - SMEs) on the basis of a survey performed among 424 entities.