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on Confederation of Independent States |
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Issue of 2015‒10‒25
forty-one papers chosen by |
| By: | Natalia Shagaida (Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy); Vasily Uzun (RANEPA) |
| Abstract: | Систематизированы предпосылки проведения аграрной реформы в России; обобщена теория и практика ее осуществления, проведен сравнительный анализ Столыпинской и Ельцинской аграрных реформ; дана оценка положительных и отрицательных последствий реформирования; сформулированы уроки реформы, новые вызовы, стоящие в области структурной перестройки сельского хозяйства в условиях адаптации к меняющимся рыночным и политическим условиям. The authors classify preconditions for the implementation of the agrarian reform in Russia, They summarize theory and practice of its implementation, provide comparative analysis of Stolypin and Yeltsyn agrarian reforms, give assessment of the positive and negative results of the reform, formulate lessons of the reform, new challenges in the sphere of structural perestroika of agriculture amid adaptation to changing market and political climate. |
| Keywords: | Russian economy, agrarian reform, Stolypin reforms, Yeltsyn |
| JEL: | Q13 Q14 Q15 Q16 Q17 Q18 |
| Date: | 2015 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:gai:wpaper:140&r=all |
| By: | Natalia Shagaida (Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy); Vasily Uzun (RANEPA); Ekaterina Gataulina (RANEPA); Renata Yanbykh (RANEPA) |
| Abstract: | Проанализировано распределение полномочий по поддержке сельского хозяйства между федеральным центром и субъектами РФ, проведена сравнительная оценка уровней поддержки сельхозпроизводителей по субъектам РФ, в т. ч. за счет мер янтарной и зеленой корзин; дана оценка влияния мероприятий янтарной корзины на единство аграрного рынка в целом, а также на рынки основных видов продукции. На основе изучения опыта США, ЕС, Канады и результатов анализа практики Рос-сии предложены меры по синхронизации федеральной и региональных аграрных политик, обеспечения их соответствия требованиям ВТО. The authors analyzed distribution of powers regarding support of agriculture among the federal center and the constituents of the Russian Federation, conduct comparative assessment of the assistance level of agricultural producers across RF constituents, including at the expense of amber and green baskets. They give assessment of the impact of the amber basket on the unified agrarian market as a whole, as well as on the markets of basic types of produce. On the basis of the USA, EU and Canada experience and the findings of the Russian analysis they propose measures aimed at synchronization of the federal and regional agrarian policies ensuring they correspond the WTO requirements.. |
| Keywords: | Russian economy, agrarian reform, WTO |
| JEL: | Q13 Q14 Q15 Q16 Q17 Q18 |
| Date: | 2015 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:gai:wpaper:141&r=all |
| By: | Yusupov, Vitaly (Russian presidental academy of national economy and public administration (RANEPA)) |
| Abstract: | This is a study of the implementation of the administrative reform in Russia and, in particular, its most important stage - the improvement of public and municipal services. The study was conducted from the standpoint of science of administrative law. We justify a number of practical suggestions for improving the administrative legislation.This is a study of the implementation of the administrative reform in Russia and, in particular, its most important stage - the improvement of public and municipal services. The study was conducted from the standpoint of science of administrative law. We justify a number of practical suggestions for improving the administrative legislation. |
| Keywords: | administrative reform, Russia |
| Date: | 2015–09–17 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:rnp:ppaper:050915&r=all |
| By: | Gushchin, Evgeny (Russian Foreign Trade Academy); Taganov, Boris (Russian presidental academy of national economy and public administration (RANEPA)); Ptashkina, M. G. (Russian presidental academy of national economy and public administration (RANEPA)); Istomin, R. (Russian presidental academy of national economy and public administration (RANEPA)) |
| Abstract: | The paper deals with the study of the consequences of Russia's foreign trade liberalization in the wake of accession to the WTO, conclusion of preferential trade agreements including agreements on free trade with CIS member states, establishment of Customs Union with Kazakhstan and Belorus. Special attention is paid to the assessment to the targets of Russian trade and integration policy as well as to the achieved results. |
| Keywords: | Russian economy, foreign trade, WTO, Customs Union |
| Date: | 2015–09–17 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:rnp:ppaper:120915&r=all |
| By: | Dmitry Kofanov (RANEPA); Tatiana Mikhailova (RANEPA); Anton Shurygin (Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy) |
| Abstract: | В этой работе мы изучаем географическую концентрацию отраслей промышленности в Советском Союзе. Распределение экономической активности в географическом пространстве России - во многом результат долгих лет развития в рамках советской системы. Понимать, как и в чем отличается экономическая география России от стран, развивавшихся в условиях рыночной экономики, необходимо для разработки правильных мер экономической политики сегодня. This paper deals with the analysis of geographical concentration of industrial sectors in the Soviet Union. Distribution of economic activity in geographical space of Russia is the result of long years of development in the framework of the Soviet system. It is important to understand how and in what respect economic geography of Russia differs from othe countries which developed under the market conditions. It is necessary in order to develop correct measures of economy policy at present. |
| Keywords: | Russian economy, economic geography |
| JEL: | F43 F40 |
| Date: | 2015 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:gai:wpaper:138&r=all |
| By: | Alexander Nikulin (RANEPA); Irina Trotsuk (RANEPA); Inna Kopoteva (RANEPA) |
| Abstract: | В работе обобщен российский и зарубежный (Скандинавские страны, Финляндия, США, Канада) опыт сельского развития на региональных и локальных уровнях, рассмотрены государственные, бизнес- и негосударственные-некоммерческие программы и проекты сельского развития, позволяющие сформулировать некоторые прогнозы и предложения для сельского развития северных территорий Российской Федерации с учетом зарубежного опыта. This paper sums up Russian and international (Scandinavian countries, Finland, USA and Canada) experience regarding agricultural development at regional and local levels. Authors analyzed state, business and non-governmental and non-commercial projects and programs of agricultural development which allow to formulate certain projections and proposals for the agricultural development of northern territories of the Russian Federation taking into consideration international experience in this sphere. |
| Keywords: | Russian economy, risk agriculture, northern territories |
| JEL: | Q13 Q14 Q15 Q16 Q17 Q18 |
| Date: | 2015 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:gai:wpaper:139&r=all |
| By: | Kireeva, Elena Yurievna (Russian presidental academy of national economy and public administration (RANEPA)) |
| Abstract: | The new system of Russian legislation, which occupies a central place the Constitution of the Russian Federation in 1993, was formed relatively recently. Under this system, new sources of constitutional law, has expanded the scope of the subject of constitutional-legal regulation, there was the emergence of qualitatively new legal institutions. As a consequence, one of the major challenges facing the legal science and practice today is not only an analysis of qualitative changes have occurred and trends of the constitutional laws of the Russian Federation, but also to develop concepts and forming solutions to its improvement and optimization. Can I lay the Constitution opportunities for long-term economic growth? Constitution began as the basic laws of power ("instrument of government"), as a compromise between the most influential and powerful groups leaders. The paper deals with examples of how the constitution can protect property rights and to promote long-term prosperity. |
| Keywords: | constitution, Russia, economic growth |
| Date: | 2015–09–17 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:rnp:ppaper:030915&r=all |
| By: | Nazarov, Vladimir (Russian presidental academy of national economy and public administration (RANEPA)); Sisigina, Natalia (Russian presidental academy of national economy and public administration (RANEPA)) |
| Abstract: | This paper is aimed to analyze the international experience of the use of health savings accounts and possibilities of their application in the Russian practice. In the conditions of insufficient public spending on health it is particularly important to search for new mechanisms to pay for healthcare that can attract additional resources in the sector and improve the efficiency of spending. Medical savings accounts are also of interest to the Russian health care as one of the possible tools of drug insurance, provided by the drug provision of the population of the Russian Federation for the period up to 2025. The work deals with national models and possible future applications of medical savings accounts, as well as the specifics of the Russian market, influencing the choice of the model and the success of its implementation. The final chapter of the work gives general advice on incorporation of medical savings accounts in the public health system of the Russian Federation. |
| Keywords: | Russian economy, health savings accounts, health reform |
| JEL: | I11 I13 I14 I15 I18 |
| Date: | 2015–10–16 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:rnp:ppaper:om07&r=all |
| By: | Erokhova, Maria (Russian presidental academy of national economy and public administration (RANEPA)) |
| Abstract: | The paper commented on the points of the joint Resolution of the Plenum of the Supreme Court and the Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation of 29.04.2010 ¹ 10/22 «On some issues arising in judicial practice in the resolution of disputes relating to the protection of property rights and other proprietary rights" and the resolution of the Plenum Russian Federation of 04.04.2014 ¹ 22 "On some issues the award to the collector of funds for non-enforcement of the act." On the legal positions expressed in abstract explanations, the author tried to look from the perspective of how they were understood in the jurisprudence, which of the positions will remain relevant after the reform of the Civil Code and the abolition of the Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation. |
| Keywords: | property rights, civil code, supreme court, Russia |
| Date: | 2015–09–17 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:rnp:ppaper:040915&r=all |
| By: | Kofanov, D. A. (Russian presidental academy of national economy and public administration (RANEPA)); Mikhailova, T. (Russian presidental academy of national economy and public administration (RANEPA)); Shurygin, Anton (Russian presidental academy of national economy and public administration (RANEPA)) |
| Abstract: | This paper deals with the analysis of geographical concentration of industrial sectors in the Soviet Union. Distribution of economic activity in geographical space of Russia is the result of long years of development in the framework of the Soviet system. It is important to understand how and in what respect economic geography of Russia differs from othe countries which developed under the market conditions. It is necessary in order to develop correct measures of economy policy at present. |
| Keywords: | Russian economy, geographic economy |
| Date: | 2015–09–17 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:rnp:ppaper:130915&r=all |
| By: | Evgeny Gushchin (Foreign Trade Academy); Boris Taganov (RANEPA); M. Ptashkina (RANEPA); Roman Istomin (RANEPA) |
| Abstract: | Исследование посвящено изучению последствий либерализации внешней торговли Российской Федерации в процессе и в результате присоединения к ВТО, заключения преференциальных торговых соглашений, в том числе соглашений о свободной торговле со странами СНГ, создания Таможенного союза с Казахстаном и Белоруссией. Особое внимание в работе уделяется оценке целей российской торговой и интеграционной политики, достигнутых результатов. The paper deals with the study of the consequences of Russia's foreign trade liberalization in the wake of accession to the WTO, conclusion of preferential trade agreements including agreements on free trade with CIS member states, establishment of Customs Union with Kazakhstan and Belorus. Special attention is paid to the assessment to the targets of Russian trade and integration policy as well as to the achieved results. |
| Keywords: | Russian economy, foreign trade, WTO, Customs Union |
| JEL: | F10 F14 F15 F40 |
| Date: | 2015 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:gai:wpaper:137&r=all |
| By: | Nazarov, Vladimir (Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy; Russian presidental academy of national economy and public administration (RANEPA)); Grishina, Elena E. (Russian presidental academy of national economy and public administration (RANEPA)); Ragozina, Lyudmila Georgievna (Russian presidental academy of national economy and public administration (RANEPA)); Burdyak, Alexandra (Russian presidental academy of national economy and public administration (RANEPA)); Tsatsura, Elena (Russian presidental academy of national economy and public administration (RANEPA)) |
| Abstract: | Subject of this study are the features of social support of the poor in Russia. Aim of study is to evaluate of effectiveness of social support of the poor in Russia and to develop the suggestions for its improvement. Conclusions and recommendations can be used by federal and regional governments on the field of social protection while in process of enhancement of social support system with aim to develop effectiveness and results of social help. |
| Keywords: | Russia, social support, evaluation, poor, social protection, improvement |
| Date: | 2014–04–22 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:rnp:ppaper:om03&r=all |
| By: | Elena A. Kochetkova (National Research University Higher School of Economics) |
| Abstract: | This paper examines Soviet engineer Leonid Zherebov, an inventor of continuous pulp cooker. After twenty-five years of experiments, Zherebov’s design failed, and Soviet factories began to produce pulp using imported Swedish digesters. This article examines the biography of Leonid Zherebov and continuous pulp cooking in order to better understand the nature of Russian technological innovation and its failures. It emphasizes the communication between different institutions involved as well as a range of technological, social, economic and political factors. The paper contends that technological failures were emerged from the failure of Soviet forestry as a technological system due to a lack of open discussion between its builders and the scarcity of resources required for innovation. |
| Keywords: | Zherebov, innovation, Soviet, continuous cooking, pulp industry |
| JEL: | N64 |
| Date: | 2015 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hig:wpaper:106hum2015&r=all |
| By: | Ovsyannikova, Svetlana (Russian presidental academy of national economy and public administration (RANEPA)); Ignateva, Yuliya (Russian presidental academy of national economy and public administration (RANEPA)); Kolokolnikova, Svetlana Kronitovna (Russian presidental academy of national economy and public administration (RANEPA)) |
| Abstract: | This paper is based on analysis of time series behaviour, reflecting the state of Russian industry in the last decade, the presence of structural changes, the analysis of the relationship between the rate of change in production volumes and structural changes and to identify the moments of time, in which the most significant changes in growth, when the fall gave way to growth, and vice versa. The study identified key factors influencing the structural changes in the Russian economy, the main trends in the development of sectoral and branch structure of the economy. |
| Keywords: | structural changes, Russian economy, time series |
| JEL: | L1 |
| Date: | 2014–11–19 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:rnp:ppaper:om01&r=all |
| By: | Andrey Aistov (National Research University Higher School of Economics); Ekaterina Aleksandrova (National Research University Higher School of Economics) |
| Abstract: | This work is devoted to estimating the individual return to worker's professional training. This empirical research is based on unique monthly data, comprised of the personnel records of workers in a Russian metallurgical enterprise between 2006-2010. Using the original time distributed difference-in-differences technique we control for the effect of workers' mobility and the "non-parallel" dynamics of earnings in estimates. A qualitative comparison of mobility in trained and control groups is also made by Kaplan-Meier survival curves. The main factors that distinguish this paper from others are the following. (I) We focused on the internal labour market, concluding that it has common peculiarities of wage setting concerned with training as an open labour market. (II) We show that mobility-friendly training programs give high returns, and not only in transition economies. (III) We suggest controlling for mobility by choosing a corresponding control group. (IV) We use a robust new specication that is reactive to dierent dynamics of the dependent variable in treated and control groups in dierence-in-dierences estimates. (V) We compared three dierent kinds of training and our conclusions could have practical application (at least in Russian context). The best way to raise personal earnings is on-the-job training. The internal mobility caused by retraining courses was the same impact on workers as if they lacked retraining. The wages of workers trained in the same eld grow randomly for a few months before and after training. Nevertheless it is dicult to prove the causal eect of this kind of training on wage growth. |
| Keywords: | earnings function, Mincerian type equation, dierence-in-dierences, treatment eect, personnel records, panel data, internal labour market, training, retrain courses, return to training, mobility, Kaplan-Meier, survival curve. |
| JEL: | J24 J31 M51 M53 |
| Date: | 2015 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hig:wpaper:101/ec/2015&r=all |
| By: | Tatyana Maleva (RANEPA); Maria Kirillova (RANEPA); Nikita Mkrtchyan (RANEPA); Yulia Florinskaya (RANEPA); Victor Lyashok (RANEPA) |
| Abstract: | В рамках данной работы рассматривается внутреннее перераспределение трудовых ресурсов (внутренняя миграция), характеристики внешней трудовой миграции, изучается кадровый потенциала и потенциала повышения производительности экономики на примере региональных рынков труда. Эмпирической основой анализа региональных рынков труда является комплексное исследование, объединяющее опрос представителей руководства предприятий и населения в возрасте экономической активности двух регионов Российской Федерации, наиболее полно репрезентирующих изучаемые процессы. The authors analyse domestic redistribution of labor resources (domestic migration), characteristics of external labor migration, analyse personnel potential and increase of productivity on the example of regional labor markets. They provide empirical analysis of regional labor markets within complex investigation of enterprises and their employees. |
| Keywords: | Russian economy, labor market, domestic labor migration |
| JEL: | F22 J11 J61 J62 |
| Date: | 2015 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:gai:wpaper:142&r=all |
| By: | Anna Mironova (National Research University Higher School of Economics) |
| Abstract: | This paper analyses the relation between trust as the element of social capital and individual subjective life satisfaction. It answers the question of whether trustful people are happier than suspicious people. Using the concept of social capital, we consider three main types of trust: general, institutional and social. The article estimates the level of trust in Russia using data from value research in two federal districts in Russia. This research was conducted by the Centre for Comparative Social Research in summer 2012. The main hypothesis, that there a positive relationship between the level of trust and subjective life satisfaction, was tested using the method of structural equation modelling. |
| Keywords: | social capital, trust, subjective life satisfaction. |
| JEL: | Z |
| Date: | 2015 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hig:wpaper:42psy2015&r=all |
| By: | Bussolo,Maurizio; Simone,Schotte; Matytsin,Mikhail |
| Abstract: | Using household data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, this paper assesses how aging affects saving. To overcome a systematic bias against the life-cycle hypothesis of survey data, the paper estimates how the age profile of saving changes when the micro data are corrected to account for the contribution to pensions (as additional saving) and receipt of benefits from pensions (as dissaving). With these corrections, the Russian data support the life-cycle hypothesis. A small decline in the aggregate saving rate, because of aging, can thus be expected. However, since aggregate saving rates result from a combination of age and cohort effects, this decline may not be significant. When extrapolating the rising trends of the cohort effect, the fact that younger generations are earning and saving more than older generation at the same age, the projection shows a growing aggregate saving rate. The changes in saving of future cohorts, for example because of changes in the growth rate of the economy, can affect the aggregate saving rate even more than aging. |
| Keywords: | Science Education,Economic Theory&Research,Debt Markets,Banks&Banking Reform,Emerging Markets |
| Date: | 2015–10–15 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:7443&r=all |
| By: | Mikhailova, T. (Russian presidental academy of national economy and public administration (RANEPA)) |
| Abstract: | In general, the results extend our knowledge about the effectiveness of regional policy in the short and in the long term. In particular, they allow us to understand, have any of the measures of the Soviet regional policy irreversible effect on the spatial structure of the Russian economy, and, if so, their effectiveness depends on natural features of the terrain. |
| Keywords: | regional policy, Russia, cities |
| Date: | 2015–09–17 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:rnp:ppaper:010915&r=all |
| By: | Gabueva, Larisa (Russian presidental academy of national economy and public administration (RANEPA)); Pirogov, M. (Independent) |
| Abstract: | Currently, there is no methodology for determining routine medical needs that considering the public demand for modern medical care. Methods of determining the boundaries of state guarantees are not formed. The structure of the state order for health services that would consider the rational activity of medical institutions with the standards and practices of health care. Thus, the need to provide the public demand for medical care in the form of a standardized set of medical services and medicines becomes crucial in the formation of the program of state guarantees of the provision of free medical care to citizens of the Russian Federation. |
| Keywords: | healthcare, tarification, postmodernisation |
| Date: | 2014–07–08 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:rnp:ppaper:om08&r=all |
| By: | Gurnain Pasricha; Matteo Falagiarda; Martin Bijsterbosch; Joshua Aizenman |
| Abstract: | Using a novel data set on capital control actions in 17 emerging-market economies (EMEs) over the period 2001–11, we provide new evidence on domestic and multilateral (or spillover) effects of capital controls. Our results, based on panel vector autoregressions, suggest that capital control actions had limited impact on the variables of the monetary policy trilemma, as a result of offsetting resident flows and ample investment opportunities in EMEs. These findings highlight the importance of the macroeconomic context and of the increasing role of resident flows in understanding the effectiveness of capital inflow management. Tightening of capital inflow restrictions in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (the BRICS) generated significant spillovers via bank lending and exchange rates, particularly in the post-2008 environment of abundant global liquidity. Spillovers seem to be strongest among the BRICS and in Latin America. These results are robust to various specifications of our models. |
| Keywords: | Econometric and statistical methods, Financial system regulation and policies, International financial markets, International topics, Monetary policy framework |
| JEL: | F32 G15 F41 F42 |
| Date: | 2015 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:bca:bocawp:15-37&r=all |
| By: | Avxentieva, Maria (Russian presidental academy of national economy and public administration (RANEPA)); Omelyanovsky, Vitaly (Russian presidental academy of national economy and public administration (RANEPA)); Sura, Maria (Russian presidental academy of national economy and public administration (RANEPA)) |
| Abstract: | The authors performed clinical and economic modeling of the introduction of outpatient drug supply of working age patients with arterial hypertension (AH) in view of adherence to treatment in the Russian Federation and made proposals that increase the efficiency of drug supply programs while containing costs. According to a systematic review of research, provided that patients medications for ?80% of days treatment period, the frequency of hospitalizations in patients with cardiovascular disease can be reduced by 1.43 times. By reducing the frequency of hospitalizations reduced the burden on the state management of patients with hypertension, including costs associated with hospitalization, medical emergencies (direct medical costs), the payment of temporary disability benefits (direct non-medical costs), as well as the loss of gross domestic product (indirect costs). Despite significant cost savings by reducing the frequency of hospital admissions - 4.5 billion rubles per year for a group of 5 million people (registered patients of working age with hypertension in the Russian Federation), the necessary amount of additional funds in the case of implementation of the program of outpatient drug supply will be from 3.3 billion rubles to 22.8 billion rubles in year depending on the price of drugs and the chosen strategy of public funding. However, in certain segments of patients (eg, pharmacotherapy of patients of working age with stage I hypertension) introducing mechanisms to cover the costs of drug therapy by the state can be cost-effective in the short term (1 year). Additional economic benefits of public investment in this amount of 91.7 million rubles up to 802.5 million rubles. |
| Keywords: | health care, financing, health policy, Russia, budget |
| Date: | 2015–09–20 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:rnp:ppaper:om06&r=all |
| By: | Belyakov, Sergei (Russian presidental academy of national economy and public administration (RANEPA)) |
| Abstract: | The main purpose of research is to develop models of non-profit organization, allowing to define their place and role in the evaluation of the quality of human resources. The scientific report discusses the main features of the nonprofit organization, analyzed the network of non-profit organizations in the Russian Federation, presented models to analyze the financial condition of educational institutions. |
| Keywords: | education, human resources, Russia |
| Date: | 2015–09–17 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:rnp:ppaper:070915&r=all |
| By: | Magomedov, Kerem Osmanovich (Russian presidental academy of national economy and public administration (RANEPA)); Ponomarenko, Boris Timofeevich (Russian presidental academy of national economy and public administration (RANEPA)); Sulåmov, Vlàdimir (Russian presidental academy of national economy and public administration (RANEPA)); Rybakova, I N (Russian presidental academy of national economy and public administration (RANEPA)) |
| Abstract: | The submission discusses various aspects of the problem of corruption in the system of public service and control, the results of content - media analysis and sociological research on personnel corruption in the state and municipal management, defined indicators for assessing the effectiveness of anti-corruption. As the main subject of sociological analysis appears cadre corruption and its threat to the system of state and municipal government, for the whole of Russian society. |
| Keywords: | corruption, public service, personnel |
| Date: | 2015–09–17 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:rnp:ppaper:080915&r=all |
| By: | Alzheev, I A (Russian presidental academy of national economy and public administration (RANEPA)); Boldyreva, Elena (Russian presidental academy of national economy and public administration (RANEPA)); Kameneva, E N (Russian presidental academy of national economy and public administration (RANEPA)); Chepunov, Î (Russian presidental academy of national economy and public administration (RANEPA)); Chepus, A V (Russian presidental academy of national economy and public administration (RANEPA)) |
| Keywords: | public service, constitutional responsibility |
| Date: | 2015–09–17 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:rnp:ppaper:090915&r=all |
| By: | Aleh Mazol (Belarusian Economic Research and Outreach Center (BEROC)) |
| Abstract: | This paper explores the development of local self-governance in the Republic of Belarus. Attention is paid to the theoretical foundations of local self-governance, advantages and disadvantages of decentralization, assessment of its impact on economic growth, to the analysis of the existing system of local self-governance in the Republic of Belarus, including directions for its improvement. The main advantages of decentralization of local self-governance are the reduction of corruption, taxes and the size of local administrations, as well as informational advantage of local authorities on the needs of local population. The development of local self-governance should be directed to the implementation of deconcentration of the administrative-territorial division, reasonable centralization of local Executive Committees in combination with real empowerment of local Councils of deputies, to the improvement of the mechanism of alignment and balancing of local budgets, as well as development of the financial base of local financial management and intergovernmental relations. |
| Date: | 2015–01 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:bel:ppaper:22&r=all |
| By: | Myasoedov, Sergey (Russian presidental academy of national economy and public administration (RANEPA)); Borisova, L. (Russian presidental academy of national economy and public administration (RANEPA)) |
| Abstract: | This paper on the analysis of the dependence of the economic growth dynamicsof BRICS member states on a particular style of management and creation of business models, communications, business models with national cultural traditions, norms and rules accepted in the societies of these countries. |
| Keywords: | economic growth, BRICS, national cultural traditions |
| JEL: | Y80 |
| Date: | 2015–09–16 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:rnp:ppaper:om02&r=all |
| By: | Oleksandr Vashkiv |
| Abstract: | This work investigates the structure of basic industrial funds of cargo motor transport enterprises and peculiarities of the processes of their reproduction in the conditions of social and economic relations transformation. On the basis of statistic data of cargo-motor transport enterprises of Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv and Ternopil regions the author investigates the effect of production factors on the level of capital productivity of the basic funds, he determines reserves of its increase. The author motivates the necessity of adaptive qualitative changes in the management and realization of industrial potential and innovations activization in the sphere of cargo motor transportations, scientiffically grounded recommendations for efficiency increase of the usage of basic industrial funds of cargo motor transportation enterprises in modern economic conditions are provided in this work. |
| Date: | 2015–10 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:papers:1510.05698&r=all |
| By: | Rogozin, Dnitriy M. (Russian presidental academy of national economy and public administration (RANEPA)); Ipatova, Anna (Russian presidental academy of national economy and public administration (RANEPA)) |
| Abstract: | The first chapter presents the results of a pilot plan, which consisted in the fact that the routes pass personal interview (a national representative survey of 9,500 respondents conducted one of the leading Russian companies questionnaires) and walk to the respondents. We were able to talk with the residents of these apartments as the respondents, as well as with their neighbors, and have not found one respondent. In the second chapter we analyzed a sample of Moscow itself, trapped in her administrative districts and regions, all the addresses and routes for all sources available to us. Once the house was found a non-existent, we separately tested the presence of all included in realized sample of houses on the map of Moscow. We do not just pass route in search of the respondents, and recorded and checked all references listed in the itinerary interviewers polling company. The objective was to assess the level of accessibility and effort spent by interviewers to survey the desired number of respondents belonging to a route selection. The newly discovered mass falsification and fabrication. To do this, we selected the most "clean" throughout the document and reiterated their routes. The process of selecting the net routes, as well as their analysis and results of repeated appeals are detailed in the third chapter. The fourth chapter presents the results of the third pilot plan, when our employees get to work in the leading Russian company Polling interviewers to conduct door-polls. The objective was to understand how the fabrication and falsification fixed at the institutional level, what is happening inside the polling "machine," as organized and methodical work with the interviewers and what is the status of these workers. Last, the fifth chapter is the guidelines for conducting surveys door-using computerized technology. Fixing paradata automated polls - one of the outputs of the current situation with the now traditional violation of research ethics in mass surveys. We offer a list of variables that must be present in the software of electronic devices to comply with certain "purity" of the field work and the fight against mass falsifications and fabrications. |
| Keywords: | social surveys, quality control |
| Date: | 2015–09–17 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:rnp:ppaper:020915&r=all |
| By: | Amat Adarov (The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, wiiw); Peter Havlik (The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, wiiw); Gabor Hunya (The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, wiiw); Michael Landesmann (The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, wiiw) |
| Abstract: | Graph of the month Per capita GDP in Ukraine and Poland, 1991-2013 (p. 1) Opinion corner Is the EU Danube Region Strategy helpful? (by Gábor Hunya; pp. 2-3) Implications of EU integration for Ukraine’s foreign trade (by Amat Adarov and Peter Havlik; pp. 4-10) How to attract FDI to Ukraine after stabilisation? (by Gábor Hunya; pp. 11-16) Supporting industrial and regional economic development in Ukraine (by Michael Landesmann; pp. 17-20) Recommended reading (p. 21) Statistical Annex Monthly and quarterly statistics for Central, East and Southeast Europe (pp. 22-43) |
| Keywords: | national income, regional cooperation, international trade, integration, foreign direct investments, FDI policy, industrial policy, regional policy, regional economics |
| Date: | 2015–04 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wii:mpaper:mr:2015-04&r=all |
| By: | E. Lance Howe (Department of Economics, University of Alaska Anchorage); James J. Murphy (Department of Economics, University of Alaska Anchorage; Institute of State Economy, Nankai University; Economic Science Institute, Chapman University); Drew Gerkey (Department of Anthropology, Oregon State University); Colin T. West (Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina) |
| Abstract: | Integrating information from existing research, qualitative ethnographic interviews, and participant observation, we designed a field experiment that introduces idiosyncratic environmental risk and a voluntary sharing decision into a standard public goods game. Conducted with subsistence resource users in rural villages in remote Kamchatka Russia, we find evidence consistent with a model of indirect reciprocity and local social norms of helping the needy. When experiments allow participants to develop reputations, as is the case in most small-scale societies, we find that sharing is increasingly directed toward individuals experiencing hardship, good reputations increase aid, and risk-pooling becomes more effective. Our results highlight the importance of investigating social and ecological factors, beyond strategic risk, that affect the balance between independence and interdependence when developing and testing theories of cooperation. |
| Keywords: | experimental economics, field experiment, public goods, risk-pooling, resource sharing, team production |
| JEL: | D70 H41 D81 |
| Date: | 2015–10 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ala:wpaper:2015-04&r=all |
| By: | Dzmitry Kruk (Belarusian Economic Research and Outreach Center (BEROC)) |
| Abstract: | This policy paper deals with the phenomena of dollarization and prospects of de-dollarization policies in Belarus. During last two decades Belarus has been a highly dollarized economy. Recently, the authorities declared a campaign of de-dollarization, which, however, focuses mainly on de-dollarization of payments. Such a policy is unlikely to become effective. We show that Belarus suffers from all possible forms of dollarization that interact with each other, forming a kind of vicious circle. Through this, de-dollarization policies, if needed in general, must be systemic and consider different forms of dollarization. We show that strategically Belarus is situated in ‘boarder-line’ area between the options of autonomous monetary policy and official dollarization. If deferring to autonomous monetary policy, a sequence of systemic de-dollarization policies is crucial for its effectiveness. The mix of the policies depends on the scope of different forms of dollarization. However, there is no precise assessment for real dollarization in Belarus (which is the direction for future research). Hence, we formulate a number of scenarios of such policies for cases with different intensity of real dollarization. |
| Keywords: | äîëëàðèçàöèÿ, äåäîëëàðèçàöèÿ, ðåàëüíàÿ äîëëàðèçàöèÿ, ôèíàíñîâàÿ äîëëàðèçàöèÿ, äîëëàðèçàöèÿ ðàñ÷åòîâ, ðåæèì ìîíåòàðíîé ïîëèòèêè. |
| JEL: | E42 E44 E52 E58 E61 |
| Date: | 2015–04 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:bel:ppaper:23&r=all |
| By: | Kateryna Bornukova (Belarusian Economic Research and Outreach Center (BEROC)); Katerina Lisenkova (National Institute of Economic and Social Research); Anastasia Luzgina (Belarusian Economic Research and Outreach Center (BEROC)) |
| Abstract: | The pension system of Belarus is inherited from USSR. It is gender-biased and does not contribute to economic development. Obsolescence of the system and demographic situation in Belarus make pension system reforms inevitable. Under the current pension system the deficit of the Pension fund will reach 1.8% of GDP by 2020. Transition to the fully-funded pension system is not possible until macroeconomic stabilization is achieved. In the medium term only parameters of current pension system can be reformed. Equating of retirement age of females and males with gradual increase of pension age to 65/65 is the most effective measure among all available alternatives. It will provide not only the financial stability of the Pension fund, but will also increase labor force participation, which will become the engine of economic growth. |
| Date: | 2015–09 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:bel:ppaper:30&r=all |
| By: | Kirill Shakhnov |
| Abstract: | The paper documents stylized facts about Belarusian business cycle based on aggregate and industry data and puts it into an international content. First, the aggregate fluctuations in Belarus are mostly driven by the wedge, which resembles a time-varying investment tax. Second, the fluctuation in relative prices of an industry is typically more important than volume fluctuation. Furthermore, the impact of price fluctuations is partially offset by volume fluctuation. Third, the aggregate cycle is smoother than the industry-specific one. In particular, agriculture, construction and finance experience a very sharp drop in a recession. |
| Keywords: | bussiness cycle, industry data, Belarus |
| JEL: | E32 L11 |
| Date: | 2015–10 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:bel:wpaper:30&r=all |
| By: | Dzmitry Kruk (Belarusian Economic Research and Outreach Center (BEROC)) |
| Abstract: | Weak potential growth has sustained as the key challenge for Belarusian economy. In 2014, there has not been any substantial progress in this field, although the government declared a start in a preparatory stage for structural reforms. In current macroeconomic policy, the regime of exchange rate targeting has been preserved as the core element. Alongside, monetary and fiscal policies have become more tight and conservative in 2014. For the first time, the government has to retain the growth of real incomes. Furthermore, capital investment has been ‘repressed’ with a view to enhance financial stability. However, this policy design, even empowered by substantial injections from international reserves, could not resist new adverse external shocks. Hence, Belarus again faced currency and financial stress. This background determined charmless macroeconomic results of the year: low growth, high inflation and external imbalances. The combination of accrued structural and short-term problems vitalizes the challenge of long-lasting recession/stagnation in future periods. |
| Keywords: | ýêîíîìè÷åñêèé ðîñò, Áåëàðóñü, öèêëè÷åñêèé ñïàä, òàðãåòèðîâàíèå îáìåííîãî êóðñà, âíåøíèå øîêè, öåíîâàÿ êîíêóðåíòîñïîñîáíîñòü. |
| JEL: | E42 E44 E52 E58 E61 |
| Date: | 2015–05 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:bel:ppaper:25&r=all |
| By: | E. Lance Howe (Department of Economics and Public Policy, University of Alaska Anchorage); James J. Murphy (Department of Economics and Public Policy, University of Alaska Anchorage and Institute of State Economy, Nankai University and Economic Science Institute, Chapman University); Drew Gerkey (Department of Anthropology, School of Language, Culture & Society, Oregon State University); Colin Thor West (Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina) |
| Abstract: | Integrating information from existing research, qualitative ethnographic interviews, and 3 participant observation, we designed a field experiment that introduces idiosyncratic 4 environmental risk and a voluntary sharing decision into a standard public goods game. Conducted 5 with subsistence resource users in rural villages in remote Kamchatka Russia, we find evidence 6 consistent with a model of indirect reciprocity and local social norms of helping the needy. When 7 experiments allow participants to develop reputations, as is the case in most small-scale societies, 8 we find that sharing is increasingly directed toward individuals experiencing hardship, good 9 reputations increase aid, and risk-pooling becomes more effective. Our results highlight the 10 importance of investigating social and ecological factors, beyond strategic risk, that affect the 11 balance between independence and interdependence when developing and testing theories of 12 cooperation. |
| Keywords: | experimental economics, field experiment, public goods, risk-pooling, resource sharing, team production |
| JEL: | D70 H41 D81 C93 |
| Date: | 2015 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:chu:wpaper:15-20&r=all |
| By: | Maryia Akulava (Belarusian Economic Research and Outreach Center (BEROC)) |
| Abstract: | The development of a private sector and the expansion of its role in the economy is one of the key goals repeatedly announced by the Belarusian authorities. The reforms carried out in Belarus in 2006-2014 moved the country from 106th to 57th position in the World Bank Doing Business ranking. The official statement is that reforms boosted the rapid development of business initiatives and its impact on economic development. Unfortunately, there is no clear confirmation of this statement. The absence of a transparent and clear methodology in Belarusian statistics on how to evaluate the role of the private sector makes it difficult to evaluate the exact input of the Belarusian business in the economy and compare its role to other countries. |
| Keywords: | ìàëûé áèçíåñ, ÷àñòíûé ñåêòîð, âêëàä è ó÷àñòèå |
| JEL: | L25 L26 L50 |
| Date: | 2015–04 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:bel:ppaper:24&r=all |
| By: | Arevik Mkrtchyan |
| Abstract: | How do member states determine the Common External Tariff (CET) in a Customs Union? While a large theoretical literature studies the incentives faced by governments when negotiating the CET, empirical evidence is so far scant. This paper studies a large panel data set of tariff data from the Eurasian Customs Union and demonstrates the importance of mutual protectionism: member states bargain to expand to their partners the protection of goods that were protected nationally. Moreover, there is almost no evidence of exercising bargaining power to keep keep the CET down for goods where one of the member states would see large tariff increases. Thus countries bargain for mutual protection, rather than mutual liberalisation concessions. I show that the mutual protectionism finding emerges using three methodologies: analysis of variance using unique explanatory power of each variable, determining the Shapley value from analysis of variance and finally OLS regression. Furthermore, I develop a simple model to explain the mutual protectionism effect. |
| Keywords: | customs union, common external tariff (CET), tariff setting,Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan |
| JEL: | F14 F15 F55 |
| Date: | 2015–05 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:bel:wpaper:27&r=all |
| By: | Asongu, Simplice |
| Abstract: | Purpose – We assess growth determinants in the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) and MINT (Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey) fast-developing nations for the period 2001-2011. Particular emphasis is laid on the bundling and unbundling of ten governance dynamics. Design/methodology/approach- Contemporary and non-contemporary Fixed- and Random-Effects regressions are employed as empirical strategies. GDP growth and real GDP output are used as dependent variables. The governance variables are bundled by means of principal component analysis. Findings- The following are some findings. First, governance is more positively significant in non-contemporary specifications as opposed to contemporary regressions. Second, there is some interesting evidence on the heterogeneity of political governance as a driver. Political governance and its constituents (political stability and voice & accountability) are significantly positive in GDP growth but insignificant in real GDP output regressions. Third, the other governance dynamics are more significant determinants of real GDP output, as opposed to GDP growth. Accordingly, they are insignificant in contemporary regressions and negatively significant in non-contemporary regressions for GDP growth. Fourth, the constituents of economic governance have the highest magnitude in the positive effects of governance dynamics on real GDP output. Practical implications- The following are some practical implications. First, lag determinants are necessary for growth targeting or timing of growth dynamics. Growth drivers for the most part are more significantly determined by past information. Second, political governance is the most important driver of economic growth, with the significance of effects more apparent in non-contemporary regressions. Third, economic governance and institutional governance are more positively predisposed to driving real GDP output than GDP growth. Originality/value- As far as we have reviewed, it is the first study to investigate growth determinants in the BRICS and MINT nations. It has strong implications for other developing countries on the contem |
| Keywords: | Economic Growth; emerging countries; governance |
| JEL: | C52 F21 F23 O40 P37 |
| Date: | 2015–03–01 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:67310&r=all |
| By: | Sokolov, Ilya (Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy); Boldareva, O. (Russian presidental academy of national economy and public administration (RANEPA)) |
| Abstract: | The study provides estimates of total economic losses to society from the presence of chronic diseases and other health problems, both in the long and short term. The paper presents the overall ranking of health problems on the degree of additional effects on total revenue of the company (in the long and short term). Based on estimates of the economic losses the company and discussed the degree of influence factors on the probability of getting diseases are general recommendations about the effectiveness and appropriateness of the various programs in the healthcare sector. |
| Keywords: | Russian economy, chronic diseases, health problems, healthcare, healthcare reform |
| JEL: | I11 I15 I18 |
| Date: | 2014–07–29 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:rnp:ppaper:om04&r=all |
| By: | Doreen Burdack |
| Abstract: | The economic impact analysis contained in this book shows how irrigation farming is particularly susceptible when applying certain water management policies in the Australian Murray-Darling Basin, one of the world largest river basins and Australia’s most fertile region. By comparing different pricing and non-pricing water management policies with the help of the Water Integrated Market Model, it is found that the impact of water demand reducing policies is most severe on crops that need to be intensively irrigated and are at the same time less water productive. A combination of increasingly frequent and severe droughts and the application of policies that decrease agricultural water demand, in the same region, will create a situation in which the highly water dependent crops rice and cotton cannot be cultivated at all. |
| Keywords: | EU, Russia, energy, gas, cooperation, resources |
| Date: | 2014–12 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pot:pestud:04&r=all |