The paper contains the results of theoretical development and empirical verification of spatial gravity model of Russian trade. The authors conclude that the spatial variables and especially the location of the state border checkpoints have a significant effect on the volume and routes of...

Russian domestic ruble retail and wholesale gasoline prices have stayed below the level predicted by the law of one price (LOP) over the first few months of 2015. The main factors of phenomenon are the rigidity of Russia's domestic gasoline prices, infrastructural or regulatory trade...

An analysis of the freight costs of Russian foreign trade cargos shows that the quality characteristics of Russia's seaports have a strong bearing on the sea freight routing – seaports with low-quality infrastructure are apt to lose the competition. Not only Russia's economic policy in the...

The Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy has analyzed the state of Russia's light industry and made a comparative analysis of the competitive power of production chains of Russian manufacturers and their principal foreign competitors. The analysis shows low degree of integration of Russia's...

The taxation reform in the oil and oil-refining industries in 2014 – the ‘tax maneuver' – was designed to boost the performance of domestic oil refineries. In late 2015, the planned reduction of export duty was suspended in order to keep unchanged the volume of tax-generated revenues...

Russian Abstract: Снижение издержек международной торговли вследствие технологического прогресса, а также либерализации торговых отношений по всему миру, привело к...

Russian Abstract: На сегодняшний день одним из наиболее используемых инструментов для анализа международной торговли является гравитационная модель торговли....

Decomposition of Russian GDP growth rates has been performed to assess conditions that would enable Russia to achieve economic growth rates surpassing the worldwide average. In 2017, the contribution of fundamental factors of production (labour, capital, total factor productivity) to Russian GDP...

Russian Abstract: Объектом исследования в данной научно-исследовательской работе является государственное регулирование железнодорожных грузовых перевозок. Основной...