Paper was presented at the 5th Global Conference Forum for Economists International, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 29-June 1, 2015.The aim of the paper is the development and testing of new approaches to estimate the activities in the Russian shadow economy.The research presents an analysis of the...

The proposed approach to the construction of estimates of the shadow activity scales in the production sectors of the Russian economy is an example of using of alternative methods for measuring the components of the non-observed economy. Estimated indicators of growth in the scale of shadow...

This study is devoted to the development of approaches to the assessment of macroeconomic indicators, aggregate factor productivity, labor productivity, capital and other indicators in the conditions of digitalization of the national economy. The study applied a methodological framework based on...

The paper reviews the application of the data envelopment analysis (DEA) method for measuring the efficiency of national innovation systems (NIS). The paper firstly visualizes the logic of DEA method and briefly summarizes the key advantages and main limitations of the DEA method. Further, this...

The present analysis, contracted on behalf of the Secretariat of the Swiss Science and Innovation Council, discusses measures of innovation based on three well-known rankings: the Global Innovation Index, the Innovation Union Scorecard, and the Knowledge Economy Index. It examines some basic...