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...

The investigations of spatial concentration in Russian Federation have revealed, that the expectations of production factors owners and processes of spatial concentration play the significant role in formation of spatial structure of the investment in RF The leading role in this process in...

Econometric models lead to the conclusion that presently the migratory population increase in the Russian Federation is determined mostly by the economic-demographic situation in the post-Soviet countries rather than in Russia itself Gradually Russia becomes less and less attractive for...

The Minimax criterion is considered as an alternative to the least-squares method in determination of principal components Estimated coefficients are formulated as linear programming problem The offered approach was experimentally checked using well known test data sets On these data sets the...

The second part of the article continues studying the structure of a set of variables. It consists of two pieces: (1) de-scription of a modification of Dempster covariance selection algorithm based on its combination with that of tree dependence structures construction, simulation results,...

We take a decision-theoretic view on the question of how to use instrumental variables and method of moments. Since prior beliefs play an inevitably strong role when instruments are possibly "weak", or when the number of instruments is large relative to the number of observations, it is...

Russian Abstract: В статье представлен подход для разработки методики оценки эффективности инновационного проекта. Так, определены основные задачи планирования от...