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Информационная политика Банка России: анализ воздействия пресс-релизов о ключевой ставке на межбанковскую ставку
This paper examines the impact of the main regular communication channel of the Bank of Russia – press releases after the Bank of Russia Board of Directors meetings on monetary policy issues – on the Moscow Prime Offered Rate (MosPrime Rate). We show that the press releases of the Bank of Russia can have a significant impact on the MosPrime Rate and its volatility.
The article is an analysis of basic directions forming region image in Russia during the imperial period. By example of information policy K.P. von Kaufman, the first governor-general of Turkestan, communication channels used at the second half of 19th century are examined, their effectiveness is valued.
This compendium comprises articles on legal and technological issues of Internet Governance in sphere of human rights prepared by the group of legal and technical scholars of information studies of the Higher School of Economics. This compound is devoted to the workshop on ‘Human Rights on the Internet: legal frames and technological implications’ organized by the Higher School of Economics on the 7th Internet Governance Forum (Baku, Azerbaijan, 6-9 November, 2012).
The paper analyzes the basic principles of interaction between government agencies and involved PR organizations, identifies goals and objectives of media campaigns, and compares the modern Russian practice with the experience of other countries.
The paper examines the structure, governance, and balance sheets of state-controlled banks in Russia, which accounted for over 55 percent of the total assets in the country's banking system in early 2012. The author offers a credible estimate of the size of the country's state banking sector by including banks that are indirectly owned by public organizations. Contrary to some predictions based on the theoretical literature on economic transition, he explains the relatively high profitability and efficiency of Russian state-controlled banks by pointing to their competitive position in such functions as acquisition and disposal of assets on behalf of the government. Also suggested in the paper is a different way of looking at market concentration in Russia (by consolidating the market shares of core state-controlled banks), which produces a picture of a more concentrated market than officially reported. Lastly, one of the author's interesting conclusions is that China provides a better benchmark than the formerly centrally planned economies of Central and Eastern Europe by which to assess the viability of state ownership of banks in Russia and to evaluate the country's banking sector.
The paper examines the principles for the supervision of financial conglomerates proposed by BCBS in the consultative document published in December 2011. Moreover, the article proposes a number of suggestions worked out by the authors within the HSE research team.