BOFIT 20th Anniversary Conference

RUSSIA’S ECONOMIC POLICY CHALLENGES

Time: September 14, 2011
Venue: Hilton Helsinki Strand Hotel, John Stenbergin ranta 4, Helsinki

Program

8.30 Registration

9.15 Opening words
Member of the board Seppo Honkapohja (Bank of Finland)

9.30 Russia’s move towards inflation targeting
Chair: Member of the board Seppo Honkapohja (Bank of Finland)

Senior Resident Representative Odd Per Brekk (International Monetary Fund, Moscow):
Russia’s Move Towards Inflation Targeting
First comment: Head of Research Iikka Korhonen (Bank of Finland Institute for Economies in Transition):
What Russia can learn from other countries’ experiences on its way to inflation targeting?

11.15 Russia’s WTO membership
Chair: Adviser Laura Solanko (Bank of Finland Institute for Economies in Transition)

Adjunct Professor, and former Lead Economist David Tarr (New Economic School, Moscow, and the World Bank):
Russian Accession to the WTO: the stakes, accomplishments and challenges?
First comment: Dr. Pekka Sutela

14.00 Moscow as a financial center?
Chair: Partner Ilkka Salonen (Septem Partners)

Chief economist and managing director Evgeny Gavrilenkov (Troika Dialog)
Moscow as a financial center
First comment: Professor Iftekhar Hasan (Fordham University):
Can Moscow be an International Financial Center?

Dinner speech

Russian economic policy – Between crisis and modernisation