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On December 11, 2018, Sergei Drobyshevsky, Academic Director of  Gaidar Institute met with representatives of the Japanese Association for Trade with Russia and New Independent States (ROTOBO).On December 11, 2018, Sergei Drobyshevsky, Academic Director of the Gaidar Institute met with representatives of the Japanese Association for Trade with Russia and New Independent States (ROTOBO).

The Monitoring of Russia’s Economic Outlook: the Trends and Challenges of the Socioeconomic Development (Issue No.21(82), 2018) which deals with current trends and changes in the Russian economy has recently been published.

Gaidar Institute have acquired State accreditation for educational activityFoundation “Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy named after Egor Gaidar” have acquired State accreditation for professional education in the enlarged group of professions, qualifications and trends of preparation, for a period of 6 years according to a Decree No. 1611 of the Federal Service for Supervision in Education and Science (Rospotrebnadzor) of December 5, 2018.

On December 4 , a seminar with the participation of Professor of the Faculty of Economics of the University of Hitotsubashi Eiji Kurozumi will be held at  Gaidar Institute. The title of the seminar:  Asymptotic Properties of Monitoring Tests for Bubbles.

Books issued by the  Gaidar Institute press  took part in the apparently most prominent book event of the year, that is the International Fair of Non/fiction Intellectual Literature held from November 28 to December 2, 2018 at the Central House of Artists, Krymsky Val, Stand K-14.

On November 30, Patrick Jotun, Director of the Swedish Center for Russian Studies, met with Sergey Drobyshevsky, Scientific Director of  Gaidar Institute, and Sergey Shulgin, Deputy Head, IPEI RANEPA International Department of Political Demography and Human Capital.

Markets overestimated geopolitical risks related to the country and the Government of the Russian Federation introduced a number of significant amendments to the economic policy this summer.

On November 29, Sergey Tsukhlo, Head of Business Surveys Department, delivered a presentation “Industrial Business Climate” at the Discussion Club “Economy of growth: populism or a chance for Russia?” held under V International Forum “How to break into the top five” of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation.

On November 28, 2018, Anna Kiyutsevskaya took part in the round table “Foreign policy risks of the economic development of Russia in 2020-s” in the course of the V International forum “How to break into the top five” held by the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation.

On November26, Sergey Tsukhlo, Head of Business Surveys Department, contributed to the discussion of efforts unification between Central Bank and industry aimed at economic recovery of Russia.

An open seminar “Evaluation of the SME impact on socio-economic development of the regions of Russia” took place on November 23 at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA) with the participation of Vera Barinova, Head of Innovation Economics Department, of the Gaidar Institute, and Stepan Zemtsov, Senior Researcher of this Department.

What better protects against external shocks, stable economy or developed financial infrastructure?  Is it possible to prepare for fall in oil prices or for new sanctions?

On November 20, Zvezda TV Channel broadcast live its Today Morning Show, where mortgage lending issues, including proposals by banks, borrower risks and responsibilities, the current situation with regard to debt against retail loans, and possibilities for obtaining delays in the payment of equated monthly installments, were discussed.

On 19 November, the RANEPA IAES held an open seminar titled Real Ruble Exchange-rate under the Markov Regime Switching Model. Andrey Polbin, Head of the Gaidar Institute’s Department of Macroeconomic Modeling, was among the participants.

According to the Leading Researcher of Financial Studies Department of the Center for Macroeconomics and Finance Alexey Vedev, the introduction of a tax on self-employed has no fiscal effect, he said in an interview with Gazeta.ru.