Budget consolidation and reduction of budget deficit are now becoming more urgent issues for a number of countries, especially for the European Union members. Though, today debt ratio is low at both federal and subnational levels in Russia, economic slowdown, problems with oil and gas related...

The research of evolution and proportion of tax and debt financing of government expenditures allowed to systemize factors and conditions impacting on the government option: whether to finance expenditures with a government debt or taxes. Following research step was devoted to the detailed...

This paper deals with one of the most relevant problems in the practice of adjudication of bankruptcy in Russia - dismissal of arbitration rights managers (hereinafter - also AC). Trustee in bankruptcy is a figure designed to exercise operational control procedures; in the responsibility of...

“Resource curse”, “Dutch disease”, “gold rush”, “blood diamonds” – those are just some of the epithets used to characterise the role of natural resources in economic development. They certainly do not set a positive tone for a constructive discussion. The purpose of this report...

Due to the recent drop in oil prices, there is a strong interest in the influence of the shale revolution on the global supply and demand of hydrocarbon fuels. Consequently, the attention of many economists and industry analysts is drawn to the technological, institutional and regulatory aspects...

Due to the recent drop in oil prices, there is a strong interest in the influence of the shale revolution on the global supply and demand of hydrocarbon fuels. Consequently, the attention of many economists and industry analysts is drawn to the technological, institutional and regulatory aspects...

This preprint reviews several statistical tests for (out-of-sample) forecast evaluation. In particular, it contains formulations and discussions of assumptions underlying these tests. Moreover, the preprint extends the applicability of the prediction accuracy tests of Giacomini and White (2006)...

The paper "Social Status of People with Disabilities in the Russian Federation with Accounting of the Convention on the Rights of Disabled Persons" is devoted to identifying the most appropriate instruments for the study of social status of the disabled persons. In developing of the theme of the...

Subject area of research are the topics of methodology and methods of complex statistical analysis of non-observed economy. The research is focused on solving urgent tasks connected with the increasing use of modern statistical methodology and analytical tools for the estimate of non-observed...

The paper is devoted to analysis of production dependence of Russian industry from imports. The share of imports in the cost of industrial enterprises for raw materials, purchased semi-finished products and components is significantly grew up in the post-crisis period and the weakening of the...