Olena Bilan Explained

Olena Bilan (uk|Олена Білан) is a Ukrainian economist. She is a Chief Economist at the Dragon Capital (since 2009), a Ukraine's leading investment bank, joining in 2006.^[1] She is a member of the board of directors for Kyiv School of Economics (since 2016).Olena Bilan was named a top-three analyst in the Ukrainian financial market in the Thomson Reuters Extel survey of global institutional investors in 2013 and 2014.^[2] She collaborates with the Ministry of Finance.^[3]

In 2002, she graduated with honors from the then Kyiv School of Economics (KSE). She was a student of Professor Serhiy Korablin. Her thesis was called "Investigating Liquidity Effect in the Ukrainian Interbank Market".^[4] She also graduated from the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute in 2002.

She is a member of the Editorial Board for VoxUkraine.^[5]

Bilan's expertise has been noted or her opinion quoted in the BBC,^[6] Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty,^[7] Ukrinform,^[8] Financial Times,^{[9] [10]} The Wall Street Journal,^{[11] [12]} Reuters.^[13]

Works

• Bilan, Olena. In Search of the Liquidity Effect in Ukraine. [Journal Article] Journal of Comparative Economics. Vol. 33 (3). p 500-516. September 2005.
• Siliverstovs, Bosiss, and Olena Bilan, 2005. Modeling Inflation Dynamics in Transition Economies: The Case of Ukraine. Eastern European Economics Vol. 43, No. 6, pp. 66–81.
• Bilan, Olena. Monetary and Exchange Rate Developments in Ukraine: Present and Future. [Collective Volume Article] The Periphery of the Euro: Monetary and Exchange Rate Policy in CIS Countries. Vinhas de Souza, Lucio. De Lombaerde, Philippe, eds., Transition and Development series. Aldershot, U.K. and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. p 347-58. 2006.
• Vinhas de Souza, Lucio; Schweickert, Rainer; Movchan, Veronica; Bilan, Olena; Burakovsky, Igor. Now So Near, and Yet Still So Far: Relations between Ukraine and the European Union. [Collective Volume Article] Return to Growth in CIS Countries: Monetary Policy and Macroeconomic Framework. Vinhas de Souza, Lucio. Havrylyshyn, Oleh, eds., Berlin and New York: Springer, 2006.
• Bilan, Olena and Kryshko, Maxym. Does Monetary Policy Transmission in Ukraine Go Through the Interest Rates? (September 30, 2008). EERC Working Paper Series.
• Ukraine Crisis Media Center, “Urgency and priorities for the reforms in Ukraine,” joint with Roger B. Myerson, George Logush, and Tymofiy Mylovanov, September 10, 2014.

Notes and References

1. https://dragon-capital.com/ua/about/management/olena-bilan2017_11_13/ Dragon Capital official site
2. Web site: 2018-07-03 . Елена Белан, Chief Economist, Dragon Capital . 2023-05-25 . 2018-07-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180703000420/http://www.kse.org.ua/ru/about/governance/board-of-directors/?profileid=166 . dead.
3. Web site: Міністерство Фінансів України.
4. https://kse.ua/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Bilan.pdf
5. Web site: Елена Белан | VoxUkraine. 2019-05-21. 2020-04-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20200402144745/https://voxukraine.org/ru/item/elena-bilan/. live.
6. Web site: Україна потерпає від кризи в Європі - експерти. 21 July 2011. 21 May 2019. 17 May 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190517124139/https://www.bbc.com/ukrainian/news/2011/07/110721_ukraine_economy_dt. live.
7. News: МВФ і Україна, "яка здивувала світ". Що далі?. Радіо Свобода . 8 September 2015 . 2019-05-21. 2019-05-17. https://web.archive.org/web/20190517122624/https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/27231535.html. live . Хотин . Ростислав .
8. Web site: Dragon Capital очікує зниження безробіття в Україні. 29 September 2016 . 2019-05-21. 2019-05-17. https://web.archive.org/web/20190517122632/https://www.ukrinform.ua/rubric-society/2092688-dragon-capital-ocikue-znizenna-bezrobitta-v-ukraini.html. live.
9. News: Setback for Kiev in London court over missed Russia bond payment. Financial Times. 29 March 2017. Croft. Jane. Buckley. Neil. Olearchyk. Roman. 21 May 2019. 18 May 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190518075448/https://www.ft.com/content/fd7fc2b0-147b-11e7-80f4-13e067d5072c. live.
10. News: Ukraine secures $3.9bn loan from IMF. Financial Times. 18 December 2018. Olearchyk. Roman. 21 May 2019. 18 May 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190518075422/https://www.ft.com/content/765ed762-0317-11e9-9d01-cd4d49afbbe3. live.
11. News: Ukraine Recession Deepens as Economy Shrinks 17.6%. Wall Street Journal. 15 May 2015. Mills. Laura. 21 May 2019. 18 May 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190518075426/https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraine-recession-deepens-as-economy-shrinks-17-6-in-first-quarter-1431699444. live.
12. News: Ukraine's Hryvnia Plunges After Rate Rise. Wall Street Journal. 5 February 2015. 21 May 2019. 18 May 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190518075426/https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraines-central-bank-hikes-rate-1423126686. live.
13. News: Ukraine raises $3 billion with first bond since debt restructured. Reuters. 18 September 2017. 21 May 2019. 17 May 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190517122636/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-eurobonds/ukraine-raises-3-billion-with-first-bond-since-debt-restructured-idUSKCN1BT19T. live.