The article is devoted to one of the key institutional traps of the economy in transition. Namely to dominated since the Soviet period system of low wages linked inseparably with the configuration of the social sphere. The author considers the construction as before puts obstacles in the way of...

Russian Abstract: В расхождении между индексом оплаты труда и индексом производительности труда часто усматривают угрозу устойчивости экономического роста. Критики...

The paper analyses the idea of “secular stagnation” actively discussed in the recent economic literature. It examines the most popular versions of this idea offered by T. Kowen, R. Gordon and L. Summers. Author concludes that in the next decades a slowdown of economic growth in the U.S. is...

Russian Abstract: В статье исследуется долговременная траектория роста развивающихся стран. До 16 века все страны находились примерно на одном уровне экономического...

Russian Abstract:Человеческий капитал изучается экономической наукой как фундаментальный фактор, стимулирующий накопление производственного капитала и,...

Russian Abstract: Система прогрессивных налогов представляет собой налоговую структуру, при которой налоговая ставка растет по мере увеличения уровня дохода...

Aim of the study is to estimate contribution of infrastructure capital in labor productivity in Russia. We measure stock of the traditional infrastructure sectors: communication, railways and paved roads. The idea of the econometric estimates is to expand a production function including...

An AK-model of economic growth is considered based upon a supposition that there are several agents in an economy, which have initially different wealth. Saving rate of each agent depends on her wealth. Main attention is given to asymptotic behavior of equilibrium paths. (in Russian)

We analyze equilibrium paths in two models of overlapping generations with reciprocal altruism. The first one allows us to consider a case of different propensity to of consumer to support her children and parents (non-symmetrical altruism). In this model, an equilibrium is a Nash equilibrium....