The paper summarizes the theoretic and methodological experience of economic-mathematical modeling and the practice of creating not separate models but a complex of the models of national, sectoral, regional and an enterprise levels. This approach proved to be innovative for the practice of national planning.
The paper reviews the researches made by the Department for Territorial Systems Studies, IEIE SB RAS for nearly 40 years. The author puts emphasis on those which were of actual continuity during all the period of the Department
The paper reviews basic stages in shaping the regional administration school of Siberian researchers who studies issues of regional economic self-sufficiency, regional pre-planning, a programming approach to regional economic policies, complex planning in regions, building regional markets and competitive positions of regions. The author proposes major ways of how to build a system of regional administration allowing for the present-day conditions when many different regional economic units operate in market and may have economic conflicts, the relationship between governmental and market structures, and a system of forecasting and planning for regional development.
The paper describes the basic theoretical and application-oriented results obtained by scientists of the Novosibirsk school of economic sociology over 1988-2008 and analyzes the logic and peculiarity of the results. The author specifies three periods of the studies concerning the social processes taken place in Russia at that periods and being some answer to the challenges of that time - monitoring of economic reforms, evolution of institutions and the development of new theoretical and methodological frames to analyze Russian society regarded as an integral socio-economic object.
The authors describe the history of the Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering from the moment of its foundation, and comment the facts and statistics about its 50 years history.
The paper reviews the studies, made for passed years, concerning the multiregional systems applied interregional and intersectoral models; describes basic types of models and characters of their solutions, and discusses how such instruments could be applied to the analysis of the interregional economic interactions, a nuclear and a balance of multiregional systems and identifying effective and non-effective regional coalitions. We also present and analyze the studies concerning the methodology of double-level system modeling
The paper proposes a technique to measure differences in socio-economic indicators for regions. The author applies this technique not only to assessing changes in distance of regional socio-economic indicators but also to describing the nature of shifts and how each indicator defines a relative position of a region. The allowance for measures of inaccuracy of the statistical data used was made.
The major difficulty in modeling federal support is to combine the equalizing fiscal capacities of regions with building conditions and incentives for regional authorities to accumulate their economic (fiscal) potential. The paper analyses one of possible variants of such model where the attempt to harmonize these, generally speaking, contradictory targets was made. To imitate different variants of fiscal capacities in regions which reflect both the production scopes in regions and the horizontal and vertical tax flows, and to find the situations of equilibrium in one or another sense is a key idea of our model concept.
The paper considers a number of provisions of the world and domestic concepts on the regional development which concern the evaluation of Russia regional development or being regarded as basis for a regional policy and proposed officially.
