Russian Abstract: Когда передовые страны соревновались друг с другом в улучшении делового климата, начиная с 1980-х гг., Израиль сильно отстал. Однако сегодня, когда те же...

Russian abstract: Наша работа в журнале «Электоральная политика» , посвященная американским выборам, привлекла благожелательное внимание автора – либертарианца,...

We examine the implications for estimates of wage relativities and inequality when countries experience wage arrears on a substantial scale, using the Russian labour market as a test case. The increase in wage inequality in Russia during its transition process has far exceeded the increase in...

In 2007 Russian voters elected representatives to the State Duma under new electoral procedures that President V. Putin had instituted. A presidential election followed in 2008, won by D.Medvedev, leading to Putin's new role as prime minister. To many observers, the reforms and election...

В статье рассматривается международная кластерная политика стран Балтийского региона с целью выявления предпосылок зарождения международных кластеров....

Russian Abstract: Социальное неравенство между городским населением и жителями сельской местности в России является очевидным. Российская общественная мысль...

This paper investigates the influence of both concentration and foreign banks expansion in Russian banking sector on the level of its competition. The estimation of competition is based on widely used non-structural methodology of Panzar-Rosse H-statistic (Rosse, Panzar, 1977; Panzar, Rosse, 1987)...

Results of an econometric research on the natural water control system in a part of Iset river (the Sverdlovsk region) are produced. A low level of effectiveness of the system during the considered period is demonstrated and basic ways of its perfection are substantiated

The paper compares VAT administration quality in OECD and Russia. Econometric analysis reveals positive influence of the level of institutional development on effectiveness of tax collection. However this effect is presented only if there are no additional tax privileges, which besides direct...

The article summarizes the key results of researches in the field of early warning systems for financial crises, conducted by the Center for Macroeconomic Analysis and Short-Term Forecasting (CMASF) since 2005. The proposed early warning system consists of three major blocks: the leading...