On June 27 2008, a high level Conference was held at the premises of the EU Delegation in Moscow, Russia. That conference was the culmination of the "road tour" to disseminate the ECFIN Economic Paper n. 327.
This comprehensive study, coordinated by Lúcio Vinhas de Souza at the
Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG-ECFIN) of the
European Commission, focuses on the macroeconomic aspects of the energy sector
in the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), and on some
of the challenges for fiscal, monetary and exchange rate policies arising from
their reliance on the energy sector, including fiscal rules, resource curse,
Dutch disease and quasi-fiscal activities. The study also covers selected
aspects of the EU-CIS energy relations, looking at the potential of the CIS
region as a source of energy supplies for the EU and also at current trends and
reform options of the energy sector in the CIS countries.
The full study, with Executive Summaries in Russian and English, has been
published as the Economic Paper no 327 of June 2008.
| Conference documents (Specific copyright notice) |
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Programme  [53 KB] |
| Morning Session |
| The energy sector and its macroeconomic importance in the CIS [154 KB] [154 KB] Marek Dabrowski, CASE |
| Key macroeconomic issues related to CIS energy sectors [248 KB] [248 KB] Wojciech Paczynski, CASE and Irina Tochitskaya, IPM |
| CIS role for the EU energy supply [124 KB] [124 KB] Elena Rakova, IPM |
| Afternoon Session |
| Preliminary results of a CGE model of the energy sector in
Russia
Oleg Lugovoy, IET |
| Presentation of draft World Bank flagship “ECA energy study” [190 KB] [190 KB] Helmut Schreiber, World Bank Comments by Lúcio Vinhas de Souza, European Commission |
| Strategies and policy options for the energy sector development in the CIS region [167 KB] Emmanuel Bergasse, CASE |