Nowadays, the issue of inefficient social expenditures is not just a local item of social policy, rather it comes as far as the macroeconomic level, being considered in discussions about sources of financing of the national long-term development strategy.

This publication deals with the issues of the special forms of support of the innovation activity in Russia: foundations for funding R&D; giving research grants; special order allowing budget institutions to transfer to the statutory capital of daughter organizations rights on R&D; special regime...

This publication deals with the analysis of theoretical concepts, which explain the influence of innovations on scientific and technological progress for long term perspective.

This publication deals with the analysis of theoretical concepts, which explain the influence of innovations on scientific and technological progress for long term perspective.

Recent approaches in unit root testing have taken into account the influences of initial condition, trend, and breaks in data using pre-testing and union of rejection testing strategies based on obtained information. This paper proposes an extension of the Harvey et al. (2012b) approach to...

This publication deals with the issue of innovative development. The author defines conditions which are able to promote or impede innovative development of firms in Russia, offers classification of institutional factors of innovative development of firms and corresponding set of measures which...

The correlation of state spending on pure and mixed public goods reflects the making of fundamental choices about state functions. Are pure public good "defense" normal quality provision compatible in Long Run with heavy spending on social sector (i.e. compatible with mixed public goods...

The analysis of events of the First Intifada focused on the question of how well founded the decisions made at the time were to introduce radical changes in the terror-fighting strategy. Most sources treat the process at Oslo as an outgrowth of Israel’s inability to suppress the Arab riots. We...

This paper investigates the possible economic effects of Russia-EU free trade agreement, implying a mutual zero import tariffs in the trade of the Customs Union and the EU. Analysis of the effects is made using CGE Globe v1 model. We estimate the impact of an FTA on the economies, both at the...

In the paper the authors examine not cyclic fluctuations in the growth rate of Russia’s GDP but fluctuations associated with changes in world oil prices