The principles of the green economy in the context of agglomeration: Evidence from Big Ekaterinburg

The authors consider an urban agglomeration as a more integral informal economic subject uniting economic interests of its municipalities and expressing interests of the territory which can become a driver of the "green economy" strategy. High level of social and economic development of an agglomeration kernel, and high capabilities related to minimization of environmental risks and multiplying natural capital of the small cities allows synchronization of economic growth, optimal use of natural resources and decreasing decoupling effect. Using Big Ekaterinburg as an example of urban agglomerations the authors have shown that strategic planning documents on the municipal level require cardinal revision in the context of complex development of the territory, "green" economy principles implementation and harmonization of relations among the economy, society, and environment. © 2018 Institute of Physics Publishing. All rights reserved.The authors would like to express their deepest gratitude to the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) for the support of the research within the project No. 17-22-07001 "The complex algorithm of culture-based regeneration of minor industrial cities in the context of agglomeration processes in Russia and Europe"

The principles of the green economy in the context of agglomeration: Evidence from Big Ekaterinburg

The authors consider an urban agglomeration as a more integral informal economic subject uniting economic interests of its municipalities and expressing interests of the territory which can become a driver of the "green economy" strategy. High level of social and economic development of an agglomeration kernel, and high capabilities related to minimization of environmental risks and multiplying natural capital of the small cities allows synchronization of economic growth, optimal use of natural resources and decreasing decoupling effect. Using Big Ekaterinburg as an example of urban agglomerations the authors have shown that strategic planning documents on the municipal level require cardinal revision in the context of complex development of the territory, "green" economy principles implementation and harmonization of relations among the economy, society, and environment. © 2018 Institute of Physics Publishing. All rights reserved.The authors would like to express their deepest gratitude to the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) for the support of the research within the project No. 17-22-07001 "The complex algorithm of culture-based regeneration of minor industrial cities in the context of agglomeration processes in Russia and Europe"

Consumption of import: Evidence from industrialized countries

Consumption of imported goods by households has an influence of external and domestic demand value and is one of the components of gross domestic product. Differentiation of demand for imported goods is due to a number of internal and external environment factors. There can be identified such external determinants as inflation rate, exchange rate, social guarantees, credit availability. Internal factors influencing consumer behavior of households are socio-economic and demographic characteristics of a household such as the number of household members, their socio-economic status, employment, income, place of residence. The main factors of the increase in imports commonly believed to be the growth of real money incomes and strengthening of the national currency. The increase in the welfare of the population leads to creation of effective demand, and strengthening of the national currency results in that the imported goods initially valued in foreign currencies become cheaper what in turn increases the propensity to purchase imported goods. The purpose of the study is to analyze the characteristics of household demand for imported goods in the industrialized countries. In the course of analysis of data on industrialized countries in the period from 2000 to 2014 it is proposed to use econometric and statistical methods

Analysis of human capital level and inequality interrelation

© 2015, Mediterranean Center of Social and Educational Research. All rights reserved. This article presents the results of the relationship between human capital and inequality in income distribution in European countries analysis. To test the hypothesis of research the cluster approach was applied, that allowed to divide investigated countries into 9 clusters. The study has concluded that countries with high level of human capital are characterized by a lower degree of inequality in income distribution. Correlation and regression analysis confirm the presence of feedback between the HDI and Gini index

Economic behavior of households: Cross-country comparison

The basic hypothesis of the research is that social capital has an effect on saving behavior and quality of life of households in different countries. We have used correlation and hierarchical cluster analysis as the methods of research and analyzed the indicators for the 29 countries with different levels of economic development. The cluster analysis has allowed to distribute the countries to the groups with similar meanings of household saving rate and social capital index, life expectancy or Gross national income (GNI)

Household characteristics as the determinants of their consumption expenditure

© 2016 Taylor & Francis Group, London.The main aim of this study is to analyze the impact of household characteristics such as income, urbanization degree, types of households, and work status of reference person on the differentiation of household consumption expenditure based on European countries as an example. The study has identified the essential characteristics of households, the general trends and patterns in the dynamics of household consumption expenditure

Qualitative assessment of banking system institutional environment

The research indicates that the institutional environment is a key feature of the banking system in different countries. The aim of the research is to examine banking system institutional environment from 18 countries of Eurozone. We have used index and grouping tests as the methods of research and analyzed the indicators for the countries with different state of financial system. Due the investigation countries were divided into three groups with particular features which characterizing internal institutional environment of banking system and allowing making international comparison

Approaches to assessing cost-effectiveness of technological innovation: The russian industrial companies experience

Industrial sector is a core of Russian economic. Industry forms approximately 26% of all gross added value in the country, practically all production directed at export into countries of former Soviet Union and outside of former Soviet Union is a result of industrial enterprise activity. The share of industry is also high in the budget of Russia, mostly by cost of oil-gas income. So, within the last decade the income of consolidated budget from export of oil and gas were 21 - 27% of total amount of income (minfin.ru). High dependence of Russia from export of initial non-processes raw material resources (mostly fuel-energetic) create risks for its economic. The major objective of research is to analyze the effectiveness of costs for innovations in industrial sector of Russian economic. The research is based on analysis of data by regions of Russian economic in period of years 2010-2014. We applied the regression analysis for determination on major tendencies in changes of effectiveness of costs for innovations. Besides, relative indexes were constructed and grouping (by costs of innovations and investments into capital assets) of branches of industrial sector of Russian economic was conducted, which allowed to detect their current condition and make conclusions about the need of growth of investments into innovations