Ukraine for Harvard MBA's

Harvard Business School uses Ukraine in one of its Case studies - the topic: corruption - see the description here. For many Harvard MBA's, this case is probably how they get to know Ukraine...

Upcoming Capital Controls?

According to this news, Tihipko thinks Ukraine might introduce capital controls.

Before making a decision, it would be good if he would take a close look at the research on this topic like

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2009/wp0930.pdf

http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty/sebastian.edwards/capflows_chile.pdf


http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1141633

Dress Code

The Ukrainian government's dress code makes headlines internationally - see for example the WSJ


Economists have done some work on the pay offs of beauty, like this paper but I haven't found any papers yet that try to estimate the effect of dress code on business success of firms - if I do, I'd write a column on it!

I Hope This Is a Translation Error

"She said that if the government claims there is a decline in inflation, it should back this up with data about the growth of consumption in the country, and the invigoration of lending in the real sector of the economy."

This sentence is bizar, to say the least...and does not add to the credibility of the current opposition

Subsidies Anyone?

The government is handing out subsidies for the planting of sugar beets - 500 UAH per hectare. Anybody knows why this should be subsidized?

Stereotypes and Ukraine

Interesting maps on stereotypes including Ukraine!

The New NRC Rankings Are Out

For anybody with an interest on doctoral education in the US: the new NRC rankings are out! - the economics rankings can be found here