Based on the 2017 conference "'New Reality' and Russian Markets" held at Harvard University, this book brings together world-renowned thinkers to offer the latest empirical research on recent financial risks, institutional policies, and financial stability.

Bruno S. Sergi teaches on emerging markets and the political economies of Russia and China at Harvard University; he is an Associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies; and he is Scientific Director of the Lab for Entrepreneurship and Development at Harvard. He also teaches international economics at the University of Messina, is the Series Editor of Cambridge Elements in the Economics of Emerging Markets, Co-Series Editor of the Emerald Publishing book series Harvard Lab for Entrepreneurship and Development, an Associate Editor of The American Economist, and Co-Founder and Scientific Director of the International Center for Emerging Markets Research at RUDN University in Moscow.