Article on the use of system analysis methodology for modeling socio-economic processes. The author justifies the methodological approach, based on dynamic analysis of exogenous processes in economic and social management practices. Particular attention is paid to the use of index indicators...

The article presents labor productivity estimates from 1991 to 2008 for 17 countries on industry ISIC. 3 - level. The group of countries includes USA, Canada, Brazil, Russia, Japan, China, Australia and number of major European economies. The goal is to investigate Russia`s industries...

The work presents labor productivity estimates from 1991 to 2008 for 17 countries on industry level (calculations for whole economy-level last till 2012 year). The group of countries includes USA, Canada, Brazil, Russia, Japan, China, Australia and number of major European economies. In contrast...

Using Russian data, it is showт that different assessment techniques of cathing-up development lead to opposite conclusions: according to current PPPs we have seen the cathing-up in per capita GDP during 1990-2012 period, but according to constant PPPs – we have not. It is argued that current...

The author shows that different approaches to income comparisons both on country and regional levels may lead to conflicting conclusions concerning the catching-up. It is argued that current PPPs (Instead of constant PPPs) give more reliable picture of per capita GDP convergence process on...

The work presents labor productivity estimates from 1991 to 2008 for 17 countries on industry ISIC. 3 – level (calculations for the whole economy-level last till 2012 year). The group of countries includes USA, Canada, Brazil, Russia, Japan, China, Australia and number of major European...

Russian Abstract: В статье рассматривается эконометрический подход к исследованию одной из важнейших проблем в экономике права — институциональных барьеров для...

Russian Abstract: В препринте проведено исследование долгосрочной динамики инновационного потенциала. Предложена методика выявления региональных особенностей...

In order to study the structure of society, sociologists usually distinguish several homogeneous social groups, or classes. The most common division consists of three groups: upper, middle and lower classes. Such a partition is traditionally based on a subjective (exogenous) criteria adopted by...

The paper aims at introducing copula-models' concepts and its application to solving such financials programs as risk measurement, risk hedging, portfolio optimization, derivatives pricing and duration models evaluation. For the purpose the copula definition is firstly introduced. Then different...