Author/Editor: Oksana Dynnikova, Annette J Kyobe, Slavi T Slavov.

Release Date:May, 2021

This paper examines how regional disparities have evolved in Russia and how Russia's system of intergovernmental fiscal relations is managing these disparities. Regional disparities have fallen over more...

Author/Editor: Bernardin Akitoby, Larry Q Cui, Silvia Domit, Jingzhou Meng, Slavi T Slavov, Nujin Suphaphiphat, Hanqi Zhang.

Release Date:May, 2020

This departmental paper investigates how countries in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe (CESEE) can improve fiscal transparency, thereby raising government efficiency and reducing corruption more...

Author/Editor: Slavi T Slavov.

Release Date:March, 2017

There are 13 countries in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (CESEE) with floating exchange rate regimes, de jure. This paper uses the framework pioneered by Frankel and Wei (1994) more...

Author/Editor: Olivier Basdevant, Andrew W Jonelis, Borislava Mircheva, Slavi T. Slavov.

Release Date:June, 2014

Anecdotal evidence suggests that the economies of South Africa and its neighbors (Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe) are tightly integrated with each other. There are more...

Author/Editor: Slavi T. Slavov.

Release Date:August, 2011

There are 22 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) with floating exchange rate regimes, de jure. Some target the money supply or the inflation rate; others practice managed floating. Statistical more...