Product Description: This study reviews the recent developments in capital markets and institutional investors in Russia, and examines the policy challenges ahead for the development of the sector. The analysis covers key impediments for further development and policy challenges for securities markets, in particular legal and regulatory framework, market infrastructure, government bonds, sub-sovereign bonds, corporate bonds, and equities...read more

Product Description: This is the first publication in English that systematically describes and analyzes the Russian economy and business system in terms of commercial and investment opportunities. This volume provides a forward-looking analysis of Russia's economic and business transition from the internal perspective of Russian government officials and academics and the external perspective of non-Russian specialists...read more

Product Description: Much has been written about the economic and political problems of countries that are in the process of changing from centrally planned systems to market systems. Most studies have focused on the economic, legal, political, and sociological problems these economies have had to face during the transition period...read more

Product Description: Russia Rebounds analyzes Russia's dramatic economic recovery since the country's 1998 financial crisis, emphasizing macroeconomic issues and fiscal and banking sector reforms. The crisis was a massive shock to the system and a considerable surprise to both Russians and foreign investors, who a year before had come to think that the worst of the transition from a centrally planned to a market economy was over...read more

Product Description: "Russian Banking" considers the rise of commercial market oriented banks in Russia, their links with government and non-financial companies and their role as intermediaries in the provision of finance for investment. The contributors explore the legacy of the soviet past and current functions of the Russian banking system, contrasting these with those in other post-communist societies and describing peculiarities such as informal networks and corruption...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: After the breakup of the USSR, it briefly appeared as though Russia's emerging commercial banks might act as engines of growth for a new capitalist economy. However, despite more than a decade of "reforms," Russia's financial system collapsed in 1998...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Lamdany, Ruben