Существующий в Российской Федерации механизм изъятия ресурсной ренты от продажи общенациональных ресурсов является путем покрытия неэффективности главным...

Petroleum complex is Russia's basic economic sector which is playing a leading role in providing the state budget revenues. This paper is dedicated to the main issues of the government petroleum tax policy in Russia. The author analyses the outcome of the implemented petroleum tax reform and...

Oil and gas sector remains the backbone of the Russian economy and produces the lion's share of the state budget revenues and of the trade balance. Acute oil price fluctuations which took place on the free market, reduction in demand for gas, as well as objective fall in the oil and gas...

The oil-and-gas sector has continued being the cornerstone to Russia's economy and as such it plays a pivotal role in forming the state budget revenue and the nation's balance of trade. In 2010, it was the situation in the global oil market, the one in the European gas market, and an objective...

This case study explores the corporate criminal liability of the Chinese National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) for complicity in the Darfur genocide in Sudan. Together with theoretical elements published elsewhere, this paper builds the prosecution's case as an example of the type of litigation...

Fairfield and Yohn (2001) show that disaggregating change in return on assets into change in asset turnover and change in profit margin helps in predicting future profitability. For oil and gas firms, we disaggregate return on assets in the same manner and also use data envelopment analysis...

This paper provides an overview of the political economy of oil in the CIS. It briefly situates the region's oil sector potential in the global context, before analysing the structural features of the oil sectors by country. It examines the ways in which CIS oil industries have been organised...

The oil and gas sector is among principal sectors of the Russian economy and is the driving force in shaping the state budget revenues and the trade balance. In 2016, Russia's crude oil production hit an all-time peak since 1990, and crude oil exports were close to an all-time high. Under the...

In 2016, Russia's crude oil production hit an all-time peak since 1990. Under the so-called tax maneuver in force in the oil industry, refining depth went up, production and export of fuel oil moved down and export of crude oil, a highly lucrative source of state budget revenues, increased