2002. vol. 6. No. 1

To date, the analysis of the development of countries with economies in transition has focused primarily on the macroeconomic component, in particular on macroeconomic stabilization. This is partly due to the fact that the greatest progress in Eastern Europe has been made in the macroeconomic sphere.  However, practice shows that it is difficult to maintain macroeconomic stability without paying much attention to micro-level reforms that contribute to the growth of economic efficiency of enterprises. While privatization has contributed to reform at the micro level, there is clear evidence that it is a necessary but far from sufficient condition for successful microeconomic development. This work contains a review of modern ideas about what factors influence enterprise performance and restructuring their activities. Each paragraph consists of two subsections, the first of which analyzes the theoretical basis and the experience gained by Western experts on the topic under study; the second section discusses the possibility of applying Western theory to the realities of transitional economies. Paragraph 1 begins with a review of the performance indicators of enterprises and examples of their use in research activities and restructuring of enterprises in the economies of Western countries. The second part of this section analyzes the applicability of these indicators to the study of processes occurring in transition economies. Paragraphs 3 and 4 analyse the relationship between efficiency, restructuring and property relations and efficiency, restructuring and financing. The final paragraph contains the main conclusions of the work.

 Based on an empirical analysis of the most important economic and social indicators, estimates of their regional stratification in the 1990s are given. Preliminary conclusions about the relationship of regional differentiation and growth across the country. Special attention is paid to the asymmetry of the investment space. The approaches underlying the transfer mechanism are investigated. The results of experimental calculations of budget equalization, which lead to a classical alternative between greater homogeneity of the regional space and a greater average security of the population with social benefits, are presented.

Investigation of relationship and the dynamics of monopoly and competition in the economy of Russia represent a very relevant task for the current stage of the economic policies and practices. 
A few years ago it was about the dominance of monopoly in almost all sectors of the Russian economy. The crisis of August 1998 was the impetus for the formation of fundamentally new phenomena in the economy. The ratio of monopoly and competition began to change in favor of the latter. An important role in this process was played by the substitution of imports with domestic products and, as a result, the rather rapid development of regional markets. 
The purpose of this article is to show the dynamics of monopoly and competition in regional markets on the example of the paint industry. 
The paint industry is chosen as the object of analysis, as it is here that the mechanism of competitive processes manifested itself in the most explicit form. It is known that the products of the industry can be produced at large specialized enterprises, and at relatively small capacities of a local nature, taking into account the specific requirements of specific consumers. . It is this feature of the industry that underlies the development of competitive relations, primarily at the regional level. In addition, this industry is relatively poorly represented in the economic literature, although its structure and evolution are largely indicative of the entire economy.

The article analyzes the problem of establishing transfer prices for internal financial resources of a commercial Bank. The specificity of transfer pricing for the Bank's internal financial resources is analyzed. Theoretical approaches to setting transfer prices are considered and practical methods of transfer pricing are analyzed. It is shown that transfer pricing for financial resources is a key element of the management decision - making system of the commercial Bank management. Recommendations on the organization of management of a network of branches of the Bank on the basis of transfer pricing on the internal resources of a multi-branch commercial Bank.

The readers are offered a course of lectures given to students of the State University - Higher school of Economics. This course was written by the students using the voice recorder and then transcribed using the notes. For this publication, the text has been edited and significantly expanded, but it retains some "liveliness" inherent in colloquial speech, and not peculiar to the written, academic manner of presentation. Also saved the breakdown of the lecture, which can give a guide to the reader-teacher. Since the course material is planned to be placed in four issues of the journal, the traditional numbering of formulas for subsequent references is not used. 
In the practice of domestic higher education course "time series Analysis" in the preparation of economists entered only recently, and often represents a "mechanical" transfer of the appropriate course for engineering specialties. Despite the vastness of scientific and educational literature on the above topics in foreign languages, in Russian there is not only a coherent presentation, but also suitable for use in the educational process at the master's level description of individual fragments of the proposed course, with the exception of the Box-Jen-Keynes approach to building models such as ARIMA. The articles in Russian periodicals that analyze time series for the study of the transition economy of Russia abound in a large number of errors in the application of these methods. 
This issue of the HSE Economic journal included a part of the course devoted to stationary time series, which is most fully represented in the literature in Russian. In later releases, describes the approach of Box-Jenkins, non-stationary time series of type TS and DS, testing the presence of unit root, cointegration time-series model correction of deviations for stationary and nonstationary regressors, the vector autoregressive model and their relationship to cointegration, models with conditional heteroscedasticity.