The article analyzes the reasons of the decrease in Russia’s revenues from hydrocarbon exports, financial instruments for international oil trade, the state and shortcomings of Russia’s monetary policy, its impact on Eurasian integration, the role of the Central Bank of Russia
The article examines the factors that determined the crisis of globalization in “American style”. US attempts to maintain its supremacy in the world through the creation of mega-integration groups, the rejection of them by the new US administration, the EU’s potential for recovery and development of cooperation with Russia, the experience of EU-Russia partnership in the 90s – early 2000s
The article analyses the state of and prospects for economic development in «G7» and Italy. Identified the key long-term trends of changes in macroeconomic indicators, as well as the factors that have a significant impact on them. It is shown that today in Italy there is a prolonged economic crisis that the government of this country is trying to overcome by reforms in the real sector of the economy.
The article provides an analysis of the major trends, structural changes and quantitative parameters of international technology trade in the 2005-2015 period (calculated in accordance with the OECD methodology of technological balance of payments). Also, the article features the patterns of Russia’s external trade in technology and its export structure, including charges for the use of intellectual property.
The article presents the prerequisites for Finland’s transition to the low-carbon recycling economy model in accordance with the requirements of the Paris Ecological Agreement. However, the current model, incl. wide use of carbon-intensive carriers, from which Finland is not able to refuse, can be realized no earlier than 2050
The article casts light upon relevant problems of defining the economic value of scientific publications with recourse to quantitative methods. The authors propose an innovative method of assessing the efficiency of fundamental research based on the correlation between publication activity and GDP dynamics. They outline the methodology conducive to analyzing this link and provide the preliminary results of the analysis in question obtained by means of econometrics
