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The paper deals with the key features of declared goals' setting by economic agents in Russia. It is aimed at designation an approach to making a comparative assessment of public objectives of federal executive authorities, regional administrations, development institutions and major domestic companies. The authors established a set and values of goal-setting's quality criteria for multicriteria goal analysis. It was identified that federal government's objectives are more modernization- and long-term-oriented but less measurable than corporate ones. It is also found out that the federal state programs demonstrate logical inconsistency between goals, key performance indicators and expected outcomes. The results suggest that an approach to goal-setting in Russia is non-system-based and nonfunctional at all levels of management. These findings will be of interest to experts and scholars for improving corporate and government strategic documents' creation.

The article presents the author's classification of the "catching-up modernization" models typical for Russia and Japan at the initial stage of acceleration of industrial development. The common features of the "state-national" model (Japan) and the "least resistance" model (Russia) are identified and characterized, and their comparative analysis is carried out. Particular attention is paid to the country features that have had a huge impact on the formation of national types of "catch-up modernization" model and their practical implementation. The role of the state, traditionally strong in Russia and Japan, is noted, and its change in the process of "catching up modernization" is traced. The degree of influence of endogenous and exogenous factors on the implementation of large-scale transformation of Russian and Japanese economic systems is analyzed. It is concluded that the development of national economies of the countries under consideration was a natural result and reflection of their types of the model of "catching-up modernization".

The paper suggests a system of social and economic performance indicators of the development of entrepreneurship and on their basis of the given method allowing you to undertake a comparative assessment of business development at sub-national level.

This article addresses current tools for assessing the level of dominance in industries (Concentration Index (CR), Lind Index (L), Hall-Tideman Index (HT), Herfindahl–Hirschman Index (HHI)), identifies the limitations of the existing toolkit, and proposes its modification based on the developed SV Matrix, which allows analyzing the competitive situation on different markets. Drawing on the RAEX ranking of 2020 for four industries (consulting, audit, outsourcing, information technology), the authors propose classical indices modification algorithms to conduct a comparative analysis of the dominant level on different markets. To conduct a strategic competitive analysis based on modified indices, the article proposes to use the SV Matrix, allowing to reflect the comparative dominant level for different markets, as well as market shares controlled by leading companies. The technique is tested on the sample of 90 Russian industries (according to 2020 official reports) and allows to identify the presence of dominant groups in 31 sectors, assess their size and inner differentiation that resulted in comparative analysis of industries. The SV Matrix expands the toolkit for strategic analysis, allowing to assess not only the competition level in the market and the presence of dominant players in the industry, but also the
differentiation level for companies within the dominant group. Applying this matrix help analyze the characteristics of the market (both for the companies already in the market and those just planning to enter it) and draw conclusions regarding the strategic behavior of companies.

The results of the study represent the Russian experience in the sociological study of the non-criminal "shadow" labor market, including the identification of trends in its development, analysis of socio-economic mechanisms, in particular the socio-psychological attitudes of participants in "shadow" processes, norms of legal and economic consciousness, value orientations, and motives of behavior. that determine the massive participation in the non-criminal "shadow" economy of representatives of different social, demographic and professional groups.

The article presents materials of the research seminar on issues of strategic planning in the Russian Federation. The seminar was organized by the problem group Reproduction and Economic Growth in conjunction with the Center for Socioeconomics at the Department of Political Economy, the Department of Macroeconomic Policy and Strategic Management and the laboratory for Comparative Studies of Economic Systems, Economic Faculty, Lomonosov Moscow State University.

The article presents a review of a scientific seminar discussing the nature of modern economy and the specifics of the Russian economy. Scientific seminar is organized by the Problem group "Reproduction and growth" (headed by prof. V.N. Cherkovets) together with the Centre for socioeconomics, Department of political economy (headed by prof. A.V. Buzgalin), and Laboratory of comparative study of socio-economic systems of Economics Department (headed by prof. A.I. Kolganov). The discussion focused on the nature of modern capitalism in developed countries and peculiarities of Russian capitalism; the problem of monopoly capital; stages and content of its evolution; differences in monopoly capital in developed and developing economies and Russia; the changes in the globalization process; the contradictions of monopoly capital and modern process of production socialization.

The article presents a comparative analysis of Master's programs of four leading Russian universities with those offered by top globally recognized universities (from QS, RePec, Best US News university rankings). Foreign universities' programs show a significant domination of public administration, public politics or public economics to the detriment of financial component. Out of 130 universities the author identifies only about 10 relevant programs with valuable and substantial public finance components. Russian master's programs are on a par with globally recognized programs, which provide a solid basis to easily adapt them for international students. The article contains references to top universities' programs and courses, English variants of disciplines and their Russian analogs that make the article useful for upgrading the Russian programs.

The article investigates Russian economic thought, the existence of which in modern domestic literature remains debatable. The author presents arguments of both sides in this dispute and argues that it is possible to view Russian economic thought of the late XIX - early XX century as an independent thought school in broad sense unified not so much by common creative principles as by specific scientific methods. Drawing on interdisciplinary approach, the article presents a comparative analysis of methodological and worldview characteristics of Russian school and Germany historical school. Of the determinants of Russian economic thought the author identifies two systemic elements-syncretism and philosophical orientation that embed it in the overall cultural context of the Silver Age.

This article addresses the joint cost allocation problem in context of firm's price policy, market structure, enforcement of tax, environmental and antitrust legislation and the correlating problem of incentives' design. The paper presents the theoretical foundations to distinguish such concepts as joint and by-product, their correlation with the category of waste. Moreover, the authors provide a comparative analysis of different methods of joint cost allocations and their areas of applicability. The practical part of this work involves the overview of actual practices of cost allocation in chemical industry. It confirms the need for an adjusted approach assessment of the efficiency and legitimacy of joint production in each particular case.

At the end of the past century, a new type of anomaly associated with a higher return on high-yield shares was discovered on the American stock market. Since then the effectiveness of high-dividend strategies has been investigated by many authors based not only on US market, but also on other markets. The results of the studies were contradictory, that's why it would be interesting to test the strategy over a longer time period taking into account the largest possible number of national indexes. We made a comparative analysis of the effectiveness of high-dividend strategies based on 38 indexes from 32 countries and economies and find some new factors affecting the profitability of high-dividend portfolios.

The article is devoted to problems of development of ecological tourism in especially protected natural territories and areas of the cultivated landscape. Summarized foreign experience in the organization of ecological tourism. The possibilities of management of ecological tourism in the special economic zones of tourist-recreational type of tourism clusters. The necessity to promote Russian sphere of eco-tourism for domestic and foreign consumers, the increased attention to the promotion of ecotourism product. The study used comparative and cross-cultural analysis, materials sampling, expert assessment. The results can find application in the clarification of strategy of development of ecological tourism in Russia as a whole and in its separate regions, the rationale for targeted programs, special economic zones and clusters.

The article considers factors of customer loyalty to Russian commercial banks. The research conducted by the author shows that interest rates on deposits, bank reliability and orientation towards raising funds from individuals are the main factors determining the choice of a bank. The article presents a comparative analysis of the significance of these factors for March 2012 and September 2017. In March 2012, an increase in deposits rates had a positive influence on a bank market share; in September 2017, the influence was negative. Trend reversal is due to the Bank of Russia policy of banking sector cleaning that started in 2013 and implied revocation of bank licenses, bank sanitations, and control over interest rates on deposits set by banks. The higher level of bank reliability and client orientation have a positive effect on the bank's share in both periods.

In conditions of financial institutions' development it is crucial to examine the transformation in the form of a collective investment institution under the influence of digitalization and, in particular, the emergence of cryptocurrencies. The subject of the research refers to the features of ICO functioning as a transformation of a financial institution for collective investment. The goal is to explore the ICO as a new form of collective investment. The results of the research are achieved through a comprehensive comparative analysis of ICO and IPO as a basic tool of financial institutions. The paper highlights the advantages and disadvantages, identifies the factors, analyzes the institutional regulation of ICO and proposes development vectors from three angles: for project creators, investors, regulators. The results can be used in policymaking, the functioning of joint investment platforms, in training specialists in the field of digital economy and financial markets.