The paper considers the methodical approaches to the assessment of how efficient the transactions of merger and acquisition are in the commercial and social aspects and what such transactions mean to national and regional economies. Applying the model offered by R. Merton for the optional assessment of value equity, the author presents a comparative analysis of the horizontal and conglomerate mergers, and analyses the conflicts of interests between companies' managers, owners and creditors. From the point of view of national and regional efficiency, the paper researches how to find a balance between operating synergy and the higher power of such consolidated company in the market. The latter contributes to the higher prices and a lower consumer surplus. The paper also describes the factors defining benefits from and costs of the transactions of merger and acquisition for the national economy and different regions.
The paper analyses the dynamics and sectoral structure of tax payments going from the Siberian Federal District. It was shown that the tax payments, made by the industries of the District, play a role of a locomotive in a tax sphere, and the regions of the District show the higher rates than Russian average ones. The paper also researches the reasons why the tax payments going from such sectors as transport, communication and trade relatively drop.
The paper presents the methodological bases, techniques and tools applied to develop and assess the efficiency of strategies or indicative plans for Russian regions. The notion "a concept-model" includes the theoretical concepts and methodical approaches to the process of forecasting which are presented in the form of the techniques and tools for obtaining projecting estimates. Some results are shown here such as those concerning the strategic development for Siberia, the Novosibirsk Oblast and Novosibirsk Megapolis.
The paper analyses the methodological issues of assessing the proportion of different investments which may positively influence on shaping the knowledge economy and technological sophistication, and shows the national and regional trends in shaping factors of such investments especially those going to labour resources training. The author validates the necessity to modernize the investment structure mostly through the higher share of the investments made for the technological innovations providing better competitiveness.
The paper shows the present situation and prospects for cooperation between the frontier Russia's regions and Mongolia. It is also given such analysis of the retrospective data concerning Buryatia Republic and the basic prospective ways for the cooperation in the context of international competition on Mongolia markets.
The paper rationalizes the idea that the policies to stimulate birth rate should be regionally differentiated. The factors of reproductive activity of population are shown. The paper classifies the regions by the levels and factors of reproductive activity. It is shown that the level of reproductive activity is motivated by the indicators of socio-economic stability achieved by the country, a region and a family and the indicators of personal living conditions as well as a fact of whether these indicators are balanced.
The paper presents a sociological study of how elderly people, living in two large industrial districts of Novosibirsk, have adapted to the social changes happened at the macro- and micro levels; and to what degree their life views correspond to the existed social standards. The authors describe this socio-economic group - the population of the third age - and show its heterogeneity.
The paper researches what role the regions with hydro carbonic resources could play for Russian economy under the condition of the financial and economic crisis. The authors analyze the existed and prospected directions of the oil and gas transportation within the country and for export, and conclude that the choosing of strategy for the new export pipeline routs should be done from the position of how to lower the transportation costs for Russian companies and allowing for policies of transit states.
The paper analyses the implementation of the diversification strategies applied by the enterprises of the cereal-processing industry in the Altai region, and shows how important the trade policy carried out by such enterprises is for increasing their stability and competitiveness in food markets. Having analyzed the operation of the cereal-processing industry in the Altai region, the author shows how the concentric diversification was realized by good trade policy and promotion of new products in markets.
The paper analyses the Oil Governmental Program for the Caspian Sea Shelf being realized by the Kazakhstan Republic. The author shows what ecological and economic difficulties the oil producers face, and the ways of how to avoid them.
