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I study a model of oligopolistic competition in which consumers search for prices, but have no idea about the underlying price distribution. Consumers’ behaviour satisfies four consistency requirements such that beliefs about the underlying distribution maximize Shannon entropy. I derive the...
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In this paper we analyse a model of oligopolistic competition in which consumers search without priors. Consumers do not have prior beliefs about the distribution of prices charged by rms and thus try to use a robust search procedure: they minimise the loss relative to the searcher, who knows...
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I propose a method identification of structural vector autoregressions (SVARs) and simultaneous equations models (SEMs) with orthogonal structural shocks using testable identification restrictions. If some sparsity conditions are satisfied, the method produces a set of testable inclusions and...
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This paper discusses the set of tools of government enacted in 2009–2013 in Russia to provide support to socially … missions. In Russia this approach is considered a serious policy innovation since government policy to date vis-a-vis the …
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their share. However, they are still not well examined in the marketing field. Russia is especially neglected in the …. This article examines how “Contemporary marketing practices” (CMP) works in Russia and tests the CMP model in the Russian …
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Last several decades have shown a steady broadening of national security issues’ spectrum along with an increase in the strictness of international competition driven by advances in high technologies and other factors. National security agenda is nowadays comprised not only of defense issues...
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Despite relative normalization of the US-Russia dialogue in early 2013 and their impressive cooperation on Syria and … serious crisis by. The author argues that the fundamental problem of the US-Russia relations is their old-fashioned philosophy … relations, which poorly reflects the real challenges that US and Russia face in the world of today and tomorrow. The author …
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impact on relations among states. According to the author, a sharp discrepancy between the current model of the US-Russia … especially Russia in the International system, whose policies are in greatest breach with the Kondratiev wave conjuncture. Case … arguing for a new model of the US-Russia relations and description of the one, which would be consistent with the Kondratiev …
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In this paper, we study the minimum wage reform in Russia, which aimed to decentralize the fixing of the minimum wage …
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This article describes the development of tools for parental evaluation of the quality of services in municipal kindergartens. The parents’ point of view is required as part of a complex evaluation of the quality of educational services in order to make an evidence-based educational policy. We...
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