ACTUAL PROBLEMS OF ECONOMICS

Valentey S.D. General Civilization Shift and the Multipolarity of the Modern World.  // Economics of contemporary Russia 2009.  №3 (46) С.1-7.
    In the article the author argues the position, according to which the occurrence of the economy of innovations is connected with the formation of a new system of social relations. It’s proposed to investigate these relations, using the theoretical design, named by the author as «the theory of social alternatives».
Keywords: the theory of social alternatives, types of civilizations, general civilization shift, modern society, a rent on the human capital.

Krasnopolski B.H. Alternative Models of Social-Economic Development: Foreign Approaches. // Economics of contemporary Russia 2009.  №3 (46) С.8-16.
    The regular summits of the G20 group in spite of its very high results depended traditionally on the farther acceleration of economic development and rates of the GDP growth both in the developed and developing countries. The Government of Russia holds on to same positions if to take into account the recently accepted documents by the ways out from financial crisis. Really, the index of the GDP rates is enough significant in the decision of the accumulated social-economic problems in the world, but is it possible in general to depend on this index because it is intermediate only? The more so this problem depends on decision of well-being problems of the people of the world that is the real final goal of social-economical development. Practically the recommendations of the summits include nothing about the imminent ecological catastrophe and the ways to fight with it. At the same time in the modern economical literature including the area of the ecological economics the questions of the real rates of the people’s well-being are placed in the significant dependence on the limitations of influence of economical growth and the GDP rates. This article is examined the problems of use of the alternative approaches to modeling of social-economical development that discussed actively in the foreign scientific literature.
Keywords: social-economic model, GDP, foreign approach, ecological development, «green» consensus.
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Chuprov S.V. Evolution and Stability of Production Systems in Innovative Economic Environment. // Economics of contemporary Russia 2009.  №3 (46) С.17-27.
    Information issues related to sustained adaptivity and stability of evolving production systems are discussed against the background of the increasing flux of innovations in the economic environment. The entropy and synergistic approaches are used to analyze the restructuring and performance of production systems in the context of information exchange with the environment.
Keywords: adaptation, innovation, information, system stability, evolution.

Lebedev V.V., Lebedev K.V. Output Supply Function on a Dynamic Model of Single-Commodity. // Economics of contemporary Russia 2009.  №3 (46) С.28-36.
    Firms The dynamic model of the one-product firm which profit is used on the investment into manufacture and consumption is considered. It is shown that stability of supply function as decision of a problem on maximization of perspective value of consumption essentially depends on the investment policy of firm.
Keywords: one-commodity company, offering, investment, stability.

ECONOMICAL POLICY AND ECONOMICAL PRACTICE
Belov A.V. The Regional Financial Policy of the Russian Federation: Trade-off between Efficiency and Equity. // Economics of contemporary Russia 2009.  №3 (46) С.37-45.
    The estimation of the production function for the regions of the Russian Federation over the period from 2000 to 2005 shows that the subnational budget outlays provide a substantial positive contribution to the formation of gross regional product. The paper suggests alternative ways to optimize the allocation public financial resources and to calculate the inevitable trade-offs between boosting of total output and widening of territorial income gaps.
Key words: production function, marginal productivity, regional policy, budgetary investment, migration.

Ushakov E.P. Environmentally Clean Technologies in Overcoming the Economic Crisis: Model Analysis. // Economics of contemporary Russia 2009.  №3 (46) С.46-54.
    The principles of environmental production on the base of innovations and industrial processes investments and realization of clean technologies are formulated. This insures the replicability of renewable and nonrenewable nature resources and the minimization of waste emissions into environments. On the base of model analysis the possible environmental trajectories of the long-term production development are investigated and necessary conditions of «going» on these trajectories are formulated.
Keywords: clean technologies, nature resources, environments, environmental trajectories of the long-term production development.

Klochkov V.V., Rusanova A.L. Problems of Russian Science-Intensive Industry Strategic Positioning (Example of Civil Aircraft Industry). // Economics of contemporary Russia 2009.  №3 (46) С.55-64.
    In the paper a model of choice of optimal strategy of Russian aircraft industry during its coming back to the world civil aircraft market is suggested. The analysis of risks of realization of alternative strategies of the branch's development is carried out.
Keywords: civil aircraft industry, strategic positioning, game model.

Denisov V.I. Organizational and Resource Factors of Growth of Agricultural Production in Russia. // Economics of contemporary Russia 2009.  №3 (46)С.56-79.
      The preliminary results of research of the reasons of chronic lagging of the Russian agriculture are shown in comparison with the advanced industrial countries, including, countries with the similar (to the Russian) natural and climate conditions. Besides the well-known reasons (absolutely insufficient aid from the state, actual alienation of the workers from the land, basic means of production, disparity of the prices on industrial and agricultural products), a number of institutional phenomena regularly slow down the development of agro-production in Russia is revealed.
Keywords: сross-country analysis of the agrarian economy, agricultural development opportunities in Russia.

Borusyak K.K, Munerman I.V., Chizhov S.S. Neural Network Modeling in the Problem of Mass Appraisal of Non-Residential Real Estate in Moscow. // Economics of contemporary Russia 2009.  №3 (46) С.80-86.
    The paper analyses the use of neural networks for mass appraisal of commercial property applied to the real property of The Moscow City Property Department. Special features of the factor space and problems of data collection and preprocessing are described. General regression neural networks (GRNN) were first time used for appraisal purposes and made it possible to achieve the acceptable level of 20% relative error.
Keywords: neural networks, GRNN, MLP, mass appraisal, property management.

Shitova Yu.Yu. Impact of Property Market on Commuting in Moscow Agglomeration. // Economics of contemporary Russia 2009.  №3 (46) С.87-99.
    Spatial patterns of flat sales and rent markets in Moscow region (2001, 2004–2006 years) have been quantitatively evaluated using multi-parametric regression pricing model. It was shown that accounting of living costs eliminates problem of excess of commuting costs over commuter’s incomes revealed previously. The results obtained are confirming the hypothesis of dynamic equilibrium of labor market in Moscow agglomeration.
Keywords: pendulum, labor migration, the spatial pattern of the market sales and rentals of apartments, the dynamic equilibrium of the labor market.

Moskovskaya A.A. Dynamics of Compensation Companies: Which Way is Russia? // Economics of contemporary Russia 2009.  №3 (46) С.100-107.
    The dynamics of corporate compensation costs in Russia: does paternalism still matter? The article is devoted to the analysis of the post-reform dynamics of employer costs for employee compensation and to the changes in corporate benefit policy of the Russian companies. The comparative analysis of the Russian and the US statistics of the structure of employer costs are supported by the independent qualitative data, as well as the description of institutional upheavals in employment regulation and labor relations in Russia after 1992. There is no adequate economic and institutional base providing significant social support to employees in the Russian companies relevant to the soviet «paternalism» or «corporate social responsibility».
Keywords: employer costs, employee compensations, employee benefits, industrial relations, employment regulation.

Kirov А.V. Managing Financial Stability of the Firm: Resource-Factorial Approach. // Economics of contemporary Russia 2009.  №3 (46) С.108-121.
    The article justifies applicability of the resource and factorial approach to managing the firm’s financial stability within evolutionary paradigm of the economic systems development. The essence and characteristics of transformational and transactional factors of economic agent’s activities, appropriate changes of the composition and structure of its expenditures have been defined to provide the firm’s financial stability.
Keywords: firm’s financial stability, financial capital reproduction, financial resources, factors of production function.

FOREIGN SCIENHISTS ABOUT RUSSIAN ECONOMY
Karhunen P., Kosonen R. Institutional, Industry-Level and Firm-Level Determinants of Foreign Ownership Strategies: Finnish Investors’ Views of Strategic Sectors in Russia. // Economics of contemporary Russia 2009.  №3 (46) С.122-127.
    This article advances the institutional perspective of business strategy by showing how institutional, industry-level and firm-level factors affect foreign ownership strategies. This is done by empirically analyzing the ownership decisions of eight Finnish companies operating in Russia in sectors, which can be defined as strategic. Our results show that industry-level determinants are central in the ownership decision. Institutional constraints faced by enterprises vary along strategic importance and value-creation logic of the industry, which in turn affects the perceived importance of local assets as a firm-level determinant.
Keywords: institutions, strategies of owners, Russia.