According to the Mehlum-Moene-Torvik model, the influence of institutions and natural resources on the level of GDP is ambiguous: depending on the value of a threshold function of institutional quality and natural resource endowment, the economy may be in one of the two equilibrium types -...

On the basis of available data analysis of the world economy development in the industrial era is carried out. The countries are grouped according to their economic dynamics. A model describing countries co-evolutional eco-nomic development processes in the framework of the world system is...

Russian Abstract: В статье предложена стандартная динамическая факторная модель для наукастинга ВВП, ряд которого выходит в официальной статистике с существенной...

This brief paper presents a comparative discussion of the economic growth and reform process in Russia during the 2000s. It also discusses the remaining reform priorities for Russia.