Hypothesis of Dutch disease in Russian and Armenian economies is tested in the paper. Theoretical macroeconomic modeling and econometric verification with co-integration and ECM expose some relationships which suggest the presence of Dutch disease in both economies, caused in case of Russian...

The comparative analysis of the stochastic frontier models is carried out. The model of the production potential of publications volume in dynamics and the one where a scientist’s experience has been taken into account are built. Estimates of the technical production efficiency of a scientist...

The article is devoted to the estimation of multivariate volatility of a portfolio consisted from twenty American stocks. The six specifications of multivariate volatility models are formulated and estimated. It’s demonstrated that spatial specifications of multivariate volatility models allow...

In the paper relation between the unregistered employment and life satisfaction is investigated. Endogeneity of the employment status and income is described by the system of simultaneous equations with random individual effects. The system is estimated with maximum likelihood on the Russia...

In the paper relationship of men’s income and their marital status is tested empirically. The Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey of HSE (RLMS HSE) data (1994–2011) confirm that men who are officially or civil married and were married before earn more in average than men who are not and...

The research contains the estimation of Revealed Comparative Advantage indices for food exporters and structural shifts in the global composition of food trade. The finding about the income elasticity of consumption for imported food has been done on the basis of AIDS and QAIDS models. At the...

In this paper we conduct an econometric analysis of migration at the level of Russian cities as a function of socio-economic indicators. We use panel data of migration rates of the towns in Central Russia and Siberia from 2004 to 2008. Our results suggest completely different models for these...

Research is devoted to the analysis of the import demand function in Russia. On the basis of the proposed methodology, the econometric model for the full range of imported goods in the last decade (2000–2010) is estimated. Product groups are ranked by the impact of customs duties and the real...

In the paper we estimate the size of wage penalty for the motherhood by using the data of three rounds of the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey. We have found the wage differentials between mothers and non-mothers are on the average about 8.1%. The differentials in socio-demographic,...

This paper develops an econometric methodology devised to analyze a sample of time unbalanced panel data on residential water consumption in the French island La Reunion with the purpose to bring out the main determinants of household water consumption and estimate the importance of water...