Russia's tremendous inter-regional variation in the pace of industrial land rights reform has meant that geography has helped determine the current tenure status of firms' production plots as much as any individual firm characteristics. By exploiting both this difference in the pace with which...

The paper is devoted to analytical investigation of the division of geographical space into urban and rural areas with application to Russia. Yegorov (2005, 2006, 2009) has suggested the role of population density on economics. A city has an attractive potential based on scale economies. The...

The paper is devoted to analytical investigation of the division of geographical space into urban and rural areas with application to Russia. Yegorov (2005, 2006, 2009) has suggested the role of population density on economics. A city has an attractive potential based on scale economies. The...

Within three quarters of 2012, the volume of mortgage housing loans (MHL) (Rb 698.59bn) exceeded by 50% that extended in the respective period of 2011. With growth in lending volumes, a decrease in the overdue debt on MHL in rubles both in monetary terms and as a percentage of the outstanding...

In 12 months of 2012, the volume of mortgage housing loans (MHL) exceeded by 47.3% that in the same period of 2011 and amounted to Rb 904.6bn, despite the continued growth in the weighted average rate on MHL in rubles extended within a month. In November 2012, the weighted average rate amounted...

In January-October 2012, entities of all the forms of ownership built 476,500 apartments with the total floorspace of 40.1m sq. meters which amounts to 103.8% on the respective period of 2011. The ratio between the price of housing and households' income in 2012 points to the fact that housing...

Though the lending rate on mortgage housing loans (MHL) in rubles increased from 11.4% as of December 1, 2011 to 12.7% as of January 1, 2013 the volume of mortgage housing lending in 2012 increased 32% and 44% as regards the number of loans (690,661 loans) and in money terms (Rb 1,029 trillion),...

Within three quarters of 2012, the volume of mortgage housing loans (MHL) (Rb 698.59bn) exceeded by 50% that extended in the respective period of 2011. With growth in lending volumes, a decrease in the overdue debt on MHL in rubles both in monetary terms and as a percentage of the outstanding...

In January-October 2012, entities of all the forms of ownership built 476,500 apartments with the total floorspace of 40.1m sq. meters which amounts to 103.8% on the respective period of 2011. The ratio between the price of housing and households' income in 2012 points to the fact that housing...

In 12 months of 2012, the volume of mortgage housing loans (MHL) exceeded by 47.3% that in the same period of 2011 and amounted to Rb 904.6bn, despite the continued growth in the weighted average rate on MHL in rubles extended within a month. In November 2012, the weighted average rate amounted...