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503–528
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The paper discusses the factors which explain the spread of the output decline across various industries of the Former Soviet Union. Russia and Ukraine are compared on the period 1990-95. Several traditional explanations, such as the move away from military oriented production, the replacement of the planner's preferences by consumer preferences, the disruption of the intransoviet trade relations, the change in the relative price of products when countries opened to foreign trade, and the change in factor endowments due to the split of the FSU, are all examined. Although some of these factors do have an influence on the relative growth (decline) of various industries ikn both countries, they fail to explain most of the variance of this growth (decline). Another explanatory factor is thus envisaged, namely the quality content of each industry. Quality is measured by two characteristics, the diversity (number of products made by a given industry) and the variety (Grubel-Lloyd ratio or degree of intra-industry trade), both indicators beeing measured for a typical western economy. The tests show that both Ukraine and Russia are weak at producing high quality complex goods and relatively better off producing standard homogenous commodities. The quality shock thus appears more important than the price shock to explain the dramatic decline of some ex-soviet industries. |
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529–542
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The work is devoted to the study of the application of the technique of S-curves in the analysis of the effectiveness of the marketing budget. The problem of optimization of marketing costs in the approximation of the logistic curve of the demand function is considered. A new model is proposed that allows more flexible interpretation of market data. |
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543–568
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The reasons for the wide spread of the shadow sector in Russia are investigated. The applicability of the main foreign concepts of shadow relations development is analyzed. An attempt is made to isolate the Russian specifics of the factors of illegal business and structure these factors based on several in-depth interviews with Russian entrepreneurs. The validation of some illegality factors is performed using the optimization model. |
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569–580
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The article deals with the problems of structural reform of the defense industry (state-regulated activities for restructuring and conversion of the defense industry). This direction, according to the author, should become one of the most important strategic priorities of the state industrial policy for the next five years, without it it is impossible to create a qualitatively new image of the military-industrial complex of Russia. |
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581–603
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The journal continues to publish a course of lectures on models of macroeconomics, which for a number of years is read by Professor Smirnov A.D. in the first year of master's degree at the State University of the Higher School of Economics. Lectures can be used by students and postgraduates of economic faculties of universities to study economic theory, macroeconomic modeling and problems of transition economy. |
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604–613
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The article substantiates the need for quantitative measurement of differences in the purchasing power of the ruble in regional markets on the basis of interregional price indices. Results of calculations on comparison of regional levels of the prices for 1997-1998 concerning the region-standard as which Moscow was chosen are resulted. |
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