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• Clusters in the institutional perspective: on the theory and methodology of local socioeconomic development

  ... systems with fuzzy boundaries that stimulate the development of these systems. The author analyses the influence of the inductive approach to the formation of cluster theory and juxtaposes different typologies of clusters and other types of localized economic systems. The article offers an overview of the existing methodological approaches to the problem of cluster identification and emphasises the major role of institutional dimension in the identification (and functioning) of clusters, especially ...

• Negative externalities and sustainability of energy sector

  ... industry and possibilities for the sustainable development. The concept of negative externalities of the electricity industry and evaluation and internalization of the negative externalities are reviewed from the viewpoint of principles of environmental economics and sustainable development. 1.         Arrow K. J. (1970). The organization of economic activity: issues pertinent to the choice of market versus nonmarket allocation. / In: Public expenditures and policy analysis. Chicago. 2.         ...

• Country Competitiveness: an Empirical Study

  What makes countries competitive? What economic policies effectively influence country competitiveness? The aim of this research paper is to analyse country competitiveness empirically, in order to explore the factors that make countries competitive. This can allow governments to structure ...

• The concept of “network” in the system of basic concepts of regional economic geography

  ... R. M., Berger, J., Zelditch, M., Anderson, B. 1972, Exchange Theory, Part II: Exchange Relations and Networks, Sociological Theories in Progress, Vol. 2, p. 58—87. 30. Enright, M. J. 1993, The geographic scope of competitive advantage. In: Driven,... ... the Region? Changing scales for regional identity, Utrecht, p. 87—102. 31. Gertler, M. S. 2003, Tacit knowledge and the economic geography of context, or The undefinable tacitness of being (there), Journal of Economic Geography, no. 3, p. 75—99....

• The development of small innovative enterprises through harmonising economic interests

  The harmonisation of economic interests is one of the essential preconditions for the development of enterprises, including small ones. As practice shows, the harmonisation of major interests of small innovative business requires not only market instruments, but also state ...

• Trade Liberalisation and its Impact on Regional Development: Theoretical and Experimental Studies

  The existing theoretical and empirical literature focusing on interconnections between international trade, trade liberalisation, and economic development provides ample evidence pertaining to nations and industries. However, another dimension of trade liberalisation — the assessment of the level of national or regional development — needs further research. This article sets out ...

• The Policy of Regional Convergence in Russia-Belarus integration: Prospects for Development

  ... Series WP13—01, Peterson Institute for International Economics. 16. Lindberg, L. 1963, The Political Dynamics of European Economic Integration. Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press. 17. Mundell, R. A., Swoboda, A. K. 1969, Monetary Problems ... ... Minford, P. 2016, Ignore Mandelson: We'd trade much better outside EU, The Times, March 04. 19. Perroux, F. 1948, Esquisse d’une theorie de l’economie dominante, Economie Appliquee, no.2—3. 20. Stop messing May: Economist demands PM pull UK out of EU ...

• Introducing Sectoral Models into Regional Management: An Assessment of Regulatory Impacts on the Economy

  Regardless of the geography of regions, management at the regional level, both in Russia and the Baltic Sea countries, faces many challenges. Hence, it is necessary to search for new effective economic management tools, since traditional approaches and modeling practices at the regional level are not suitable for either analysing various types of impact on regional economy (production, market (product), sector, region), or assessment of their ...

• Processes of convergence and divergence in the regions of the European Union: features and qualimetry

  ... kolichestvennyj analiz [The role of economic integration and disintegration of the former Soviet Union: a quantitative analysis], Problemy prognozirovanija [Problems of Forecasting], no. 5, p. 58—73. 12. Sala-i Martin. X. 1996, Regional Cohesion: Evidence and Theories of Regional Growth and Convergence, European Economic Review, Vol. 40, no. 6, June, p. 1325—1352. 13. Sala-i-Martin, X. 1996, The Classical Approach to Convergence Analysis, The Economic Journal, Vol. 106, no. 437, July, p. 1019—1036. 14. Dall’erba, S., Le Gallo, J. 2003, Regional Convergence ...

• Some aspects of the theory of network structures as a mechanism of innovative activity management

  ... of innovations. The article offers an analysis of the explanation of the network phenomenon in the social exchange theory, M. Castells's network theory, resource dependence theory, organisational sociology theory, new institutionalism, evolutionary economics, and French economic institutionalism. 1.  Аберкромби Н ., Хилл С ., Тернер Б. Социологический словарь / под ред. С.   А.   Ерофеева. 2-е изд., перераб. и доп....

• Industrial enterprises of the Kaliningrad region: R&D models under the conditions of perceived risks

  ... DeVuyst E., Garosi J., Wu J. Firm behavior under illiquidity risk // Applied Mathematics Letters. 2011. Vol. 24 (5). P. 709—713. 4. Shankar S. Firm Behaviour Under Uncertainty: A Simple Parametric Model // Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics. 2013. Vol. 57 (1). P. 141—151. 5. Финогенова Ю. Ю. Восприятие риска и страхование в процессе риск-менеджмента частного инвестора // Страховое дело....

• Theoretical Aspects of Cross-border Integration-based Economic Cooperation

  ... Allais М. L'Europe unie. Rout de la prosperite. Paris, 1960. 11. Allais М. La liberalisation des relationes economiques internationales.Paris, 1972. 12. Balassa В. The theory of Economic Integration. London, 1962. 13. Bilchak V. S. Cross-border economics. Olsztyn, 2002. 14. Cassel О. From Protectionism through Planned Economy to Dictatorship //International Conciliation. New York. October 1934. 15. Meyer K. Zur Theorie der wirtschaftlichen Integration // Kyklos. 1966. № 4. 16. Repke W. A Human Economy // The Social Framework of the Free Market. Indianapolis, 1971. 17. Repke W. International Order and Economic Integration. Dortrecht, 1959. 18. Кrаmеr ...

• Social and Economic Space Compression in Border Areas: the Case of the Northwestern Federal District

  The so-called “compression” of social and economic space has been the subject of quite a few studies in the past decades. There are two principle types of compression: communicative, that is, associated with the development of transport and information systems, and physical, manifested in the ...

• Economic Development of the Baltic and Nordic Countries: Characteristics of Еconomic Models

  Economic development models are crucial for understanding historical pro­gress of countries and in forecasting their future economic prospects. The Nordic countries are connected with the Baltics through culture, history, politics, and econ­omy. These ...

• Key Directions of Sectoral and Spatial Changes in the Russian Industry

  .... 2003, Analiz osnovnyh zarubezhnyh teorij konkurentosposobnosti stran i regionov v mirovom hozjajstve [Analysis of the main theories of international competitiveness of countries and regions in the world economy], Izvestija Akademii Nauk. Ser. Geograficheskaja ... ... jekonomiko- geograficheskoj sekcii Mezhdunarodnoj Akademii regional'nogo razvitija i sotrudnichestv [XXIII Annual Session of the economic and geographic section of the International Academy of Regional Development and Cooperation], Lipetsk, 2—5 June 2006,...

• Approaches to entrepreneurship development through assessing the validity of economic knowledge

  This article emphasizes the need to develop methodologies through applying valid economic knowledge within research approaches used in writing final and PhD theses in order to apply this knowledge in the development of entrepreneurship in the context of model approaches. The proposed methodological approach in the field of economic ...

• When and why regional clusters become basic building blocks of modern economy

  ... various theoretical frameworks (evolutionary theory, spatial development theory, theory of technological change and system innovation, and Porter’s competitiveness theory) to the cluster concept and consider the latter from the perspective of complexity economics. On this basis, we differentiate true clusters from their nominal counterparts and propose three analytical dimensions to explore clusters, namely, as a special class of industrial agglomerations, as a special class of innovation ecosystems,...

• Structural Changes in the Economy of the Russian Northwest: Spatial Dimension

  This paper identifies and explains the trends in the economic transformations in the Russian Northwest (NWFD). It studies the changes in the structure of the gross regional product (GRP) and economic specialization of the NWFD regions. The authors suggest approaches to managing structural changes in the ...

• Evaluating and Measuring the Security of Russia’s Border Regions: Theory and Practice

  The economic security of Russia’s regions has been the focus of numerous studies. Significant contributions have been made to relevant methodological approaches and measurement tools. However, economic security has been little studied in the context of ...

• Competitive effects of low trade barriers: evaluations for the Kaliningrad region

  ... of International Economics, no. 35, p. 1—22. 12. Lundin, N. 2004, Import Competition, Product Differentiation and Mark-Ups:—- Microeconomic Evidence from Swedish Manufacturing in the 1990s, Working paper, no. 195, FIEF, Trade Union Institute for Economic Research. 13. Roberts, M., Tybout, J. 1996, Industrial Evolution in Developing Countries, Oxford University Press. 14. Tybout, J. 2003, Plant- and Firm-Level Evidence on "New" Trade Theories. (Chapter 13, Volume 1). In: Handbook of International Trade, edited by K. E. Choi and J. Harrigan, Oxford, UK, Blackwell Publishing. 15. Venables, A. J. 1987, Trade and trade policy with differentiated products: a Chamberlinian-Ricardian model,...

• The theory of peripheral capitalism: on the applicability of the Latin American model to the Baltic States. An attempt at an inter-disciplinary analysis

  ... theoretical objective is to draw a distinction between the ideas of modernisation and transformation in a regional context. The second objective is to adjust the theory of peripheral capitalism to smaller states. To study the features of the transformation of economic and political systems in the Baltics, this article conducts comparative analysis. Systemic analysis and the principles of theoretical and empirical analysis are used as well. Building on this work, the study identifies the deficiencies of the ...

• The features of choosing an institutional development trajectory in Eastern Europe in the 16th—17th centuries: Moscovy and the Polish — Lithuanian Commonwealth

  Recent decades have witnessed an increase in the number of works dedicated to the analysis of effects of historical events on the choice of institutions and further economic and social development of regions. This article employs the new institutional economic theory approach to consider the choices regarding title to land and serfdom in Moscovy and the Polish — Lithuanian Commonwealth (earlier the Grand Duchy ...

• Inter-organizational networks as seen by western economic sociology: An analysis of theoretical approaches

  This paper analyses theoretical approaches to studying interorganizational networks offered in foreign economic sociology. The authors describe main conceptual problems, the key aspects of network form of interorganizational interaction, and embeddedness effects. 1. Alter C., Hage J. Organizations working together. Newbury Park, 1993. 2. Benson K. J....

• The sustainability of natural monopoly in regional markets: methodological prerequisites for an analysis

  Article considers theoretical aspects of sustainability of natural monopolies, which are the most important industries that create the general environment of functioning of regional social and economic system, thereby making essential impact on formation the region commodity and financial markets, and also on realization of a regional social and economic policy. The analysis of the reasons of formation of the natural monopolies, having paramount ...

• Towards a Stable and Dynamic Economy in the Kaliningrad Region

  ... 2009, Territorial capital and regional development. In: Capello, R., Nijkamp, P. Handbook of Regional Growth and Development Theories, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 118—133. 27. Cheshire, P. C., Gordon, I. R. 1996, Territorial Competition ... ... Specialisation and Prosperity in Small Open Economies, Routledge, London, 256 p. 30. Karlsson, C., Rouchy, P. 2015, Regional Economic Development, Social Capital and Governance: A Buchanian Approach, CESIS Electronic Working Paper Series, no. 390, 38 ...

• The influence of the sea on the economic development and settlement structure in the Baltic Sea region

  ... differences reflect the uneven influence of the proximity of the Baltic Sea on the development of population and national economies. Qualitative differences between mesoregions are measured using a combination of theoretical and empirical typologies. An economic, statistical, and cartographic analysis helps to identify a special type of mesoregions — coastal development corridors, which make an important contribution to the economic development and consolidation of the Baltic macroregion. In transnational ...

• Social practices and mechanisms of socialization of uncertainty

  ... forms of capital, different orders of value, and field and habitus theory. 1.  Becker G. Human Capital. Chicago, 1964. 2.  Boltanski L., Thévenot L. On Justification. The Economies of Worth. Princeton, 2006. 3.  Dequech D. Uncertainty and Economic Sociology: A Prelimninary Dis­cus­sion // American Journal of Economics and Sociology. 2003. Vol. 62. №   3. P. 509—532. 4.  Dequech D. Varieties of uncertainty: a survey of the economic literature (forthcoming). 5.  Eymard-Duvernay ...

• An economic complexity analysis of the Kaliningrad region: identifying sectoral priorities in the emerging value creation paradigm

  The ongoing technological development leads to the emergence of a new value-creation paradigm that calls for changes and structural transformations in economic systems at different levels. Structural transformations are prompted by growing economic complexity. In this context, the selection of industrial strategies and the validation of key regional industrial policies is of paramount importance. Economic ...

• The role of the river Rhine in the formation of spatial structure of the economy of European countries (1st century BC — 19th century AD)

  This article considers the main historical stages of formation of spatial economic structure of the European countries, parts of whose territories lie within the Rhine basin. The analysis covers a protracted chronological interval from the Roman colonization until the beginning of the 20th century. The author emphasizes the ...

• The system approach to modernisation and innovative regional development: strategic objectives

  ... theory and practice of state regulation of territorial development], Moscow. 8. Polterovich, V. 2009, Gipoteza ob innovacionnoj pauze i strategija modernizacii [Innovation pause hypothesis and modernization strategy], Voprosy ekonomiki [Problems of Economics], no. 6, p. 4—23. 9. Porter, М. 1993, Mezhdunarodnaja konkurencija [International competition], Moscow. 10. Pushkarenko, А. B. 2010, Podderzhka innovacionno-aktivnyh predprijatij v regionah [Support for innovative enterprises in the regions],...

• The role of International trade in improving the competitiveness of Saint Petersburg

  ... Petersburg Business Information Centres and Their Role in Increasing the Efficiency of International Business Activities, Balt. Reg., Vol. 6, no. 3, p. 45—57. DOI: 10.5922/2079-8555-2014-3-4. 11. Bazhenov, Yu. N., Podshuveit, O. V. 2012, Foreign economic activity of Saint Petersburg, the Leningrad Region, and the Republic of Karelia: problems and opportunities for development, Balt. Reg., Vol. 4, no. 1, p. 52—59. DOI: 10.5922/2079-8555-2012-1-6. 12. Baransky, N. N. 1980, Nauchnye printsipy ...

• Platform Markets: Their Place in the Theory of Mesoeconomic System: Development and a Challenge to Spatial Studies

  Over the past three decades, researchers across different disciplines have paid close attention to the development of platform markets — an emergent long-term trend in economic policy. I consider platform markets as institutional and technological systems. Platforms create systems of rules and mechanisms that stimulate agents to adopt, maintain, and improve standards disseminated by the most successful platforms. Similarly ...

• The dynamics of agricultural land use in the North-West of Rus­sia and the Baltic countries

  ... ex­pansion and contraction, intensification and transition to extensive agricul­tural production are caused by combined influence of natural, socio-economic and political factors. The periods of decline in agricultural land use coincided with years of economic and political crises. The onset of periods of recovery matches a change in state policy, general economic growth and a rise in the technological level of agriculture, as well as changes in the domestic and for­eign markets. Over the past decade,...

• Framework for the Analysis of Geography of Transnational Corporations Investments Abroad

  ... M. E. 2014, Global’nost’ gorodov SShA s positsij korporativnogo podhoda [Global status of US cities from corporate approach], Ekonomichna ta sotsial’na geografija, no. 1 (69), p. 86—94. 13. Buckley, P. J., Ghauri, P. N. 2004, Globalisation, Economic Geography and the Strategy of Multinational Enterprise, Journal of International Business Studies, Vol. 35, no. 2, p. 81—98. 14. Davidson, W. H. 1980, The Location of Foreign Direct Investment Activity: Country Characteristics and Experience ...

• Modern understanding of ‘geoeconomic position’ and the Saint Petersburg agglomeration

  ... At the same time, the specific features of the region’s geoeconomic position magnify the ‘inherited’ ad acquired effects of focal industrialization and space polarization, which creates additional prerequisites for the inversion of the Russian economic space — ‘Russia of the physical space’ and ‘the economic space of Russia’. The study uses traditional methodology of economic geography (the territorial, cluster, and spatial approaches) and the geoeconomic approach developed by the ...

• Socially efficient entry barriers?

  Stagnation of the Russian economy lends a new urgency to the question of whether reserves of competition incentives can be used to overcome the current negative economic tendencies. The lowering of entry barriers is traditionally considered a universal instrument of promoting competition. However, lower entry barriers can be mistakenly associated with bringing the market closer to the state of the so-called ‘perfect’ ...

• Monotowns: A Quantitative Analysis

  ... city of Naberezhnye Chelny to 2030], 2015, available at: http://kpfu.ru/portal/docs/F_1500185514/chelny.no.pdf (accessed 19.02.2016). 17. Williamson, О. 1996, Jekonomicheskie instituty kapitalizma. Firmy, rynki, «otnoshencheskaja kontraktacija» [Economic Institutions of Capitalism. Firms, Markets, "relational contracting"], St. Petersburg, 702 p. 18. Ulyukayev, А. V. V 4 monogorodah budut sozdany territorii operezhajushhego razvitija… [The 4 single-industry towns will be created ...

• The Development of Russian Social Geography: Challenges, Trends, Priorities

  ... widened its scope. On the other hand, it has suffered from a growing contradiction between the popularization of the social geographic knowledge, the need to have a clear understanding of the factors and results of a multi-scale territorial social and economic dynamics, and the limits of the field (with its organizational structure, possibilities and practitioners desperately falling behind the times). The aim of this article is to analyze the post-soviet period of the development of social geography ...

• Land Use Change and Economics of Land Degradation in the Baltic Region

  In this paper, we adapt a new conceptual framework for the assessment of the economics of land degradation and sustainable land management to the Baltic region. The findings show that the problem of land degradation in the countries of the region is quite substantial, manifesting itself through reductions in the provision of land ...

• Russia’s Coastal Zone as a Social and Geographic Phenomenon: Conceptualisation and Delimitation

  ... obshchestva, T. 56, P. 154—161. 3. Bernshteyn-Kogan, S. V. 1930, Ocherki geografii transporta [Essays on Geography of Transport], Moskva — Leningrad, 348 p. 4. Saushkin, Yu. G. 1973, Ekonomicheskaya geografiya: istoriya, teoriya, metody, praktika [Economic Geography: history, theory, methods, practice], Moscow, 559 p. 5. Teoreticheskie voprosy fizicheskoy i ekonomicheskoy geografii Mirovogo okeana [Theoretical questions of physical and economic geography of the oceans], 1979, Leningrad, 136 p....

• Geography of European Migration

  ... Zakat Evropy. Ocherki mirovoj istorii [Decline of the West. Essays on the history of the world], Vol. 1. Geshtal't i dejstvitel'nost' [Gestalt and reality], Moscow, 663 p. P. 269. 20. Borjas, G. 1995, The Economic Benefits from Immigration. Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 3—22. 21. Ceobanu, A. M., Escandell, X. 2010, Comparative analyses of public attitudes toward immigrants and immigration using multinational survey data: A review of theories and research, Annual Review of Sociology, no. 36, p. 309—327. 22. King, R. 2002, Towards a new map of European migration. International Journal of Population Geography, Vol. 8, no. 2, p. 89—106. 23. Taylor, J. E. 1999, The new economics ...

• Network Transformations in Economy

  ... special role in the economy. The network form of entrepreneurship is increasingly viewed as an effective organizational structure to create a market value embedded in innovative business solutions. The authors study the characteristics of a network as an economic category and emphasize certain similarities between Rus sian and international approaches to identifying interactions of economic systems based on the network principle. The paper focuses on the types of networks widely used in the economy. The ...

• Identifying Key Stakeholder Groups for Implementing a Place Branding Policy in Saint Petersburg

  .... Grinchel, B. M. 2012, Competitive advantages and competitive potential of the regions of the North-West, Vestnik INZhEKONA= Vestnik Sankt-Peterburgskogo gosudarstvennogo ekonomicheskogo universiteta. Seriya ekonomika [Herald of INJEChON. Series of economics = Bulletin of the St. Petersburg State Economic University], no. 3 (54), p. 90—98. (in Russ.) 3. Grinchel, B. M. 2007, Assessment of the competitive potential of the regions of the North-West of Russia, Ekonomika Severo-Zapada: problemyi i ...

• Clusters as a Form of Spatial Organisation of Economic Activity: Theory and Practical Observations

  This article aims at explaining the clustering of economic activity using instruments of new institutional economics, taking into account well-known descriptive characteristics of the cluster, as well as recent developments in research on hybrid institutional agreements, primarily, the research conducted ...

• Russia's accession to the WTO as an important factor of the country's integration into the world economy

  ... economy. Thus, there is a need to develop a methodology for the assessment of the preparedness for operating under WTO membership conditions, which can be practically applied in the development of measures aimed at increasing the competitiveness of economic entities. This determines the objective of the research. This article offers the author's assessment of the reasonability of Russia's accession to the WTO and suggests methodological approaches to the assessment of preparedness of the constituent ...

• Kant and the Constitution of Russian Federation

  ... constitutionalism, state, education, family, culture. Belov V. 51-59 10.5922/0207-6918-2014-3-4 [html]1. Barenbojm, P. D. 2009, Kant kak otez Konstituzii Rossii [Kant as father of the Constitution of Russia], Zakonodatel’stvo i ekonomika [The legislation and economics], Moscow,no. 9, pp. 5—9.2. Barenbojm, P. D. 2011, Konzepzija Sor’kina-Tancheva o sootnoshenii sovremennich doktrin verhovenstva prava i pravovogo gosudarstva [Conception of Zorkin-Tanchevabout the correlation of modern doctrines of the leadership ...

• The Baltic economic model: some results of the 1990—2015 transformations

  During the last 25 years, the economy of the Baltic States has been developing in the conditions of sovereignty, both de facto and de jure. This period has been sufficient to identify regular patterns in the national economic models. Studies into the nature of the economic development of the Baltic States have a considerable practical and scientific significance. On the one hand, the three Baltic States are a part of the post-Soviet space. The nature, success or failures ...

• The flow form of economic matter movement and the concept of levels

  Every science uses the concepts, in which the knowledge accumulated by it is concentrated. The methodology of economic logistics is a general theoretical approach to studying material and related flows in economic systems that based on a special understanding of reality within a certain philosophical framework. As science, logistics applies the laws of organization ...

• Work-life balance during the Covid-19 outbreak: the case of Latvia

  ... https://doi.org/10.5923/j.economics.20201004.02 . 8. Nassif-Pires L., de Lima Xavier L., Masterson T. et al. Pandemic of inequality (Economics public policy brief archive). N. Y., 2020. 9. Brooks S. K., Webster R. K., Smith L. et al. The psychological impact ... ... Vol. 395, № 10223. P. 514—523. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736 (20) 30460-8. 11. Pummerer L., Sassenberg K. Conspiracy Theories in Times of Crisis and their Societal Effects: Case “Corona”. PsyarXiv. URL: https://psyarxiv.com/ye3ma/download/?...

• The methodological bases of comparative evaluation of sci¬entific and technological potential of Russia and the EU: regional and international aspects

  ... newpaper/messedu/cour0112/270.htm (accessed 13 February 2012). 2. Amosenok, E. P., Bazhanov, V. A. 2006, Integral'naja ocenka innovacionnogo potenciala regionov Rossii [Integral assessment of innovation potential of Russian regions], Region: ekonomika i sociologija [Region: Economics and Sociology], no. 2, pp. 134—145], available at: http://elibrary. ru/download/29424874.pdf (accessed 12 March 2012). 3. Bendikov, М. А. 2007, Metodologicheskie osnovy issledovanija mehanizma innovacionnogo razvitija v sovremennoj ekonomike ...