The article considers behavior patterns of Russian firms before and during the financial crisis of 2008-9. Three main groups of actors in the Russian economy are defined at the firm level: large politically connected companies; mid-size firms that have grown in the 2000s decade with...

Even though the application of the term "monopolism" to the Soviet economy is relatively recent, monopolistic relations and actions themselves have long been an integral part of our economic life.

In recent years, the system of financial markets in Russia has been characterized by very high rates of growth at the same time that its level of development continues to lag behind similar markets in foreign countries.sup1/sup This is primarily because the starting point, which is the basis for...

The aim in this article is to analyze the problem of asymmetry of information in the savings market, not only from the standpoint of the demand for deposits as formed by the banks, but from the standpoint of their supply as wellâ that is, from the standpoint of the households themselves. We...

The selection of optimal variants and the rational use of fixed capital depend largely on the methods used to evaluate the effectiveness of new machinery and equipment. These methods are all the more important because the decree of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union...

One of the main problems of the Russian government's economic policy was a lack of a proper understanding of the processes that began in the economy in 1992 after the liberalization of prices, the introduction of a uniform currency exchange rate, and the liberalization of foreign trade. As a...

At the present time, cash transactions and barter are widespread in industry and trade. The behavior of enterprises is in large measure determined by the scale of application of forms of transactions that make it possible to "conceal" a considerable part of their income. Unlike the planned...