The paper presents econometric analysis of the of Russian banks ratings, and the experts’ opinion based on a survey, designed in a framework of the project. From the ratings and the survey we derived the factors that in the experts’ opinion and in the rating agencies’ opinion are most...

The paper proposes a scheme of organizational-economic mechanism to attract investment to the region's agriculture. The correlation between the level of state support for small and medium enterprises and the volume of agricultural production in the municipal dis-tricts of the Omsk region is...

In this paper the author examines the impact specifics of underwriter’s support on the liquidity of IPO market. It is hypothesized that the activities of underwriter will have the greatest impact on liquidity for the market of so-called "tepid" offerings. To confirm the hypothesis dynamics of...

The rating agencies were emerged by the demand from market economy. Such agencies take the job of independent evaluation of the firms' financial strength, which allow firms decrease their expenses on their own market monitoring. It is extremely important with increasing number of potential...

Article proposes comparative studies of credit ratings of the leading Russian and international rating agencies. We analyze approaches and the possibility of comparison of agencies’ rating scales. Purpose of this analysis is to propose method and describe the criteria for comparison of rating...