Following SPIEF 2019, the St. Petersburg State University of Economics (UNECON) with support from the Roscongress Foundation has published a special issue of the Izvestiâ Sankt-Peterburgskogo gosudarstvennogo èkonomičeskogo universiteta (Journal of the St. Petersburg State University of Economics). The special issue of the journal contains a collection of scholarly articles which summarize and conceptualize the results of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF 2019).
Rafael Reifs talk at the panel discussion «Leading Universities» at SPIEF 2012 could be deemed a major event in its own right. His appearance came two weeks before his official speech as President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology a position he holds to this day. His talk covered the following topics:
Doing Business 2019 is the 16th in a series of annual reports by the World Bank Group investigating the regulations affecting 11 areas of the life of a business that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. The study covers 190 economies.