In late 2014-early 2015, retail and wholesale trade, the one of the biggest sector of Russian economy , longer than others ‘put up resistance' to the negative macroeconomic trends and showed an increase, however small, in commodity turnover. Meanwhile, in the autumn of 2015, in spite of a...

Russian Abstract: Майская экономическая статистика демонстрирует продолжение и развитие негативных тенденций, обозначившихся еще в апреле: несмотря на...

Analysis of the industrial production dynamics shows that the decline in manufacturing output continues, while the extracting sector has been demonstrating a stable positive trend recently. If in the short-term perspective the economy is not shattered by any new terms of trade shocks,...

Efficiency of import substitution industrialization policy in Russia is determined by several challenges: necessary funding feasibility, availability of demand and particular properties of value chains of import substituting goods and possibility of implementation of industrial policy in line...

An analysis of changes in the structure and volume of budget expenditure earmarked for implementation of national projects in the framework of the draft Federal Law on the Federal Budget for 2020 and the 2021 and 2022 Planning Period has revealed some positive trends that point to an increase in...

The paper analyzes the inconsequence and problems of Russian economic policy to accelerate economic growth. Authors consider three components of growth rate (potential, Russian and world business cycles) and conclude that in order to pursue an effective economic policy to accelerate growth, it...

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...

There are three most significant problems for infrastructure sectors of Russia's economy: determination the boundaries of markets for natural monopolies; considerable reduction the scale of cross-subsidization, and attraction of public and private capital into the infrastructure sectors. In this...

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...

Russian Abstract: В работе приведены результаты эмпирического анализа инвестиционных эффектов вступления страны в различные преференциальные торговые соглашения,...