The research of the sector is devoted to analysis of regional development and enterprise performance, covering such areas as innovations, agglomeration externalities, environmental and socioeconomic problems, as well as the related economic policy issues. Our research uses quantitative approach to address the challenges faced by the modern economy with the aim to suggest policy oriented conclusions.
Research projects
Main research areas
Our research takes a multidimensional approach to analyzing the balanced development of Russian regions. By the balanced development we understand not just a (short-term) growth of GDP, but also a sustainable economic growth in terms of productivity increase, effective and long-term use of both internal and external sources of growth and development in the Russian regions as well as the improvement of ecological situation by stimulating the renewable energy generation technologies. To examine this problem, our research includes several key areas as described in more details below.
The first research area determines the sources and stimulion of productivity growth. We aim to answer two key questions. First, to reveal the factors influencing innovation activity of companies in terms of both increasing the R&D investment levels and improving their efficiency for companies' added value growth. Second, to assess the impact of competition on productivity, in particular, the power of competitive selection that redistributes resources from less to more productive companies.
The second research area estimates the role of agglomeration in companies productivity increase and determines the factors influencing the location choice of enterprises. Primarily, we turn our attention to an in-depth analysis of factors influencing the location choice of enterprises such as, for instance, the proximity of production inputs, well-developed infrastructure, and opportunities to gain access to the knowledge of other companies operating in a particular field. Practically, this research area aims to suggest the ways to increase the effectiveness of internal resources in regions and to extract the benefits from the economy on scale based on the optimization of productive forces distribution.
On the contrary, the third research area studies the external sources of regional growth and development. In particular, we study the factors of foreign direct investment (FDI) and estimate its impact on the economic development of Russia and Russian regions. For this, we classify the factors of foreign direct investment and build econometric models explaining FDI inflows to Russia and Russian regions, and econometric models to estimate the FDI impact on the firm growth and economic development of regions. Research of this area contributes to understanding the most important factors of FDI attraction to Russian economy and aims to develop the recommendations for government policies to strengthen the Russian attractiveness as a country - FDI importer.
Along with factors, determining economic growth mentioned above, we analyse a wide range of socioeconomic outcomes, including income inequality, poverty, and social instability, and examines the impact of environment and climate change on those outcomes. In addition, within this research area, we reveal the factors affecting individual environmental concerns, and the choice between environmental protection and economic growth. This analysis provides insights regarding the public support for economic policy in the area of environment for finding a balance of priorities in regional socioeconomic policy.
The fifth concluding area of our research studies the renewable energy generation technologies in Russia. Particularly, it is planned to determine the most promising renewable energy generation technologies that in the nearest future may become cheaper than traditional technologies, using fossil fuel, by making forecasts of technologies improvement based on historical data of their effectiveness growth, R&D investment, and data on patent activity of companies in the given and related areas. Further, we develop a new model of competition and introduction of electric energy generation technologies applied to Russia aiming to determine necessary tools for effective introduction of chosen technologies portfolio, which allows to proceed with a low-carbon energy system.
All these research areas are multidimensional, complement each other, and contribute to the corresponding areas of economics by implementing modern international approaches and methods and considering both internal and external sources of regional growth and development. These research areas are of high priority for development of strategic regional and national economic policy in order to stimulate the balanced scientific, technological, and socioeconomic development in Russia given the global climate and technological changes.
Head
Oleg Mariev
Head of Academic Department Econometrics and Statistics, PhD, Associate Professor
Teaching courses: Methods and models of international economics Macroeconomic analysis of consumption, investment and financial markets Statistics Modern problems of applied economics
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Researchers
Ivan Savin
PhD, Dr. habil., Professor
Ivan Savin studied International Economics at the Ural State University in Yekaterinburg (Russia) and at the University of Passau.
In 2011 he obtained a PhD degree from the Department of Statistics and Econometrics at the University of Giessen. He has been a postdoctoral researcher at the DFG Research Training Group 1411 “The Economics of Innovative Change” at the University of Jena between 2011 and 2015. Between 2015-2018 he served as a coordinator of the KIT-BETA research project devoted to general purpose technologies, creativity and sustainability.
Since March 2018 he joined the ERC project “Behavioral-evolutionary analysis of climate policy: Bounded rationality, markets and social interactions” (EVOCLIM) at ICTA-UAB.
Research interests: Economics of Innovation Economics of Complexity Evolutionary Optimization Methods
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Natalya Davidson
PhD in economics (Lille, France), M.Sc. in economics (CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic), Associate Professor
Teaching courses: International Trade and Trade Policy Theory of international trade Modern problems of international economics and international business International trade: theory and policies Models of spatial and regional economics
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Andrey Pushkarev
Junior researcher of the Laboratory for International and Regional Economics, Senior lecturer of Academic Department Econometrics and Statistics, laureate of the New Generation prize of the Association of Russian Economic Think Tanks.
Teaching courses: Econometrics Google Scholar profile: |
Nadezhda Kislyak
Associate Professor, Chief Consultant, Ural Main Branch of the Bank of Russia Nadezhda obtained Bachelor and Master degree with honors from the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics, Ural State University, with the specialization “Applied Mathematics"
Teaching courses: Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics Econometrics I, II Modern methods of econometric analysis Applied Econometrics Information Technology in Economic Research Mathematical Statistics (Advanced level) |
Igor Drapkin
PhD, Associate Professor
Teaching courses: International financial management Foreign direct investment (Advanced level) |
Karina Nagieva
Nikita Teplyakov
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