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.
The Impact of the Russian crisis on the Belarusian economy: the trade channel
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.
Viktar Fedaseyeu| 01.09.2018
The Value of Corporate Political Connections: Evidence from Sudden Deaths
We present new causal estimates of firm-value benefits generated by political connections. Our identification strategy uses sudden deaths of U.S. Representatives and Senators as a source of exogenous variation.
|Torbjörn Becker| Helena Schweiger|Bas B. Bakker|Tymofiy Mylovanov| 17.08.2018
The future of CIS and CEE countries
This article is based on a panel discussion on the future of transition countries 25 years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. All the contributors have long professional and personal experience of various aspects of the transition process so far and provide different perspectives on what to expect for the region in the future.
Kirill Shakhnov| 27.02.2018
Political Responsibility for Different Crises
In this paper, we study the impact of different types of crises such as sovereign and domestic defaults, banking crises, economic recessions on political turnover of the top politicians: heads of the state and central bank governors.
Aleksandr Vashchilko| 14.12.2017
Trade War and EACU
This paper looks at the effects of the trade war that followed 2014 events in Ukraine on Eurasian Customs Union (EACU).
15.11.2017
Determinants of poverty with and without economic growth. Explaining Belarus's poverty dynamics during 2009-2016
This paper studies the incidence and determinants of poverty in Belarus using data from yearly Household Budget Surveys for 2009-2016. The poverty is evaluated from consumption perspective applying the cost of basic needs approach and using food and absolute poverty lines. During last two years, absolute poverty in Belarus has increased twofold and reached 29% of the population.