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Article on the causes, dynamics of development and institutional forms of economic cycles. We study the institutional patterns associated with the formation, development and completion of economic cycles from the standpoint of an exogenous approach. The author proves the thesis about the relationship of formation of new institutions of economic behavior as a cause of the economic crisis and the formation of new institutions as the primary sign of transition to a new economic cycle. This article is an attempt to prove the relationship of economic and institutional cycling.

The paper examines the current state of Russia's entrepreneurial institutional environment built on W.R. Scott's concept of a three-dimentinal institutional environment (regulatory, normative, and cognitive). The study aims to evaluate the perception of these three dimensions by three groups of respondents: entrepreneurs, non-entrepreneurs and those with entrepreneurial intentions, including the assessment of value profiles of these groups using Schwartz's value inventory. The results of the study support the assumption that the three groups of respondents have different perceptions of institutional environment, and also suggest that value priorities differ depending on individuals' entrepreneurial activity or intentions. Specifically, for current or former entrepreneurs self-sufficiency is of much higher value than security.

The article discusses the place of the new direction in economic and regional studies – institutional economic regionalistics in the system of sciences. The paper examines theoretical and methodological features of institutional and regional economics, mutual penetration of which conditions the agenda and prospects for a new direction. The author proposes a research program of institutional economic regionalistics, covering the main aspects of its subject matter and research tools.

The article presents an analysis of the main digital economy's trends from a new institutional theory's point of view. The transition to a digital economy entails significant changes in institutional environment, transaction costs and contracts. Some of these changes can be used to realize the potential of the Russian economy competitiveness.

The article presents to an assessment of the institutional complexity level of the industry markets on the example of seven Russian metallurgical industries. The author specifies the system of institutional interaction in the industry markets. The research methodology bases on the construction of an industry markets institutional map, which is a system of two projections: the complexity level of the industry market institutions and the complexity level of industrial market institutional environment. The result of the paper is the empirical institutional mapping for the seven metallurgical industries in the fact and with the adjustment for stability. The institutional map visualizes high complexity level in all metallurgical industries, but this fact is due to various reasons. Our research can be interesting for updating of the enterprises strategy, and for the choice of an industrial policy.

The paper provides analysis of means of individualization (trademarks) as an institutional alternative to ensure quality of market goods and to enforce specific contractual performance of sellers and buyers. In general, the price mechanism as described in the perfect competition paradigm fails to ensure efficient market exchange of sophisticated goods and supplementary institutions such as a reputational mechanism are often required. Means of individualization as part of the reputational mechanism contribute to increasing efficiency of the market exchange by ensuring quality of market goods and, in broader context, by enforcing specific performance within the market contracts. The paper provides analysis of advantages and disadvantages of the means of individualization as compared with its institutional alternatives - "pure" market institutions, and centralized regulation of quality/contract performance.

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The article is about the exogenous concept of institutional recurrence and institutional balance. The institutional cycle is considered as life cycle of socio-economic institutes, as the methodological basis of the institutional analysis for all kinds of economic cycles and processes. The author analyzes mutual conformity of formal and informal institutes at different stages of their cyclic development.

Article about synthesis of theory the self-organizing and the institutional economic theory. The author proves the thesis about exogenous an origin of institutional processes in economy and cyclic institutional development.

This article is devoted to corruption's impact on the functioning of political institutions. In the author's opinion, political corruption leads to informal institutionalization and degradation of political institutions. The author concludes that public control can prevent political corruption.Key words: the political corruption, conflict of interests, formal and informal institutions, political process. ; Статья посвящена проблеме влияния коррупции на деятельность политических институтов. По мнению автора, политическая коррупция неизбежно приводит к неформальной институционализации, а значит, к деградации государственных институтов. Автор делает вывод о том, что контроль со стороны гражданского общества, совершенствование механизмов подотчетности власти могут предотвращать и сдерживать проявления политической коррупции.Ключевые слова: политическая коррупция, конфликт интересов, формальные и неформальные институты, политический процесс.

The article substantiates the need to use new approaches in describing the regional economic security including the institutional theory. We argue the importance of economic security for overcoming governance imperfections. Moreover, it is significant to a new paradigm unifying various theories that differ from one another according to methodological features — substantive, functional and axiological ones. In the modern theory of socio-economic development, more attention has been paid to the regional economic security and its institutional explanation. The purpose of the article is to study the economic security of a region through the prism of institutional factors. These factors allow revealing internal features that determine the nature of regional economic security. However, studying these factors using traditional economic theory remains less accessible. The research hypothesis supposes that our method of studying the economic security increases the effectiveness of scientific analysis. Moreover, it allows to identify a region as a complex phenomenon where universal standards of market behaviour can be considered as the special cases of economy. In this regard, the research contributes to the concept of regional economic security. We consider a region using the French «theory of agreements». The application of the theory of conventions allows to re-formulate the concept of the interaction of regional government bodies with a multi-institutional object of regulation. This is a typical for addressing the issue of economic security of northern regions where the problem of market behaviour has more acute and painful form. The outcome of this work can be used as a guide for the modernization of regional governance. © 2018 Institute of Economics Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. ; Изложено становление теории экономической безопасности и ее институциональной интерпретации. Представлены основные задачи управления экономической безопасностью. Рассмотрены эволюция и особенности производственной структуры Республики Коми.

The article presents the author's model of the institutional environment of innovative economy, the analysis of state institutions, innovation and infrastructure institutions at the current stage of formation of an innovative economy in Russia, the main problems in the the development of elements of the institutional environment and suggest possible ways of improving the current institutional environment of innovative economy in Russia.

The authors consider the intellectual property rights from two points of view: legal theory and institutional economical theory. Contents of "intellectual property" and "intellectual rights" concepts have been revealed in this paper, and the necessity of their study has been justified not only from the legal point of view, but also from the economic one. The authors emphasize that the institutional economics in general and the economic theory of property rights, in particular, have a great potential in the study both of theoretical and practical aspects related to intellectual rights. According to the authors, it is the institutional approach which will create an effective legislation in this area. ; Авторы статьи рассматривают интеллектуальные права собственности с двух точек зрения: теории права и институциональной экономической теории. В статье раскрыты содержания понятий «интеллектуальная собственность», «интеллектуальные права» и обоснована необходимость их изучения не только с правовой, но и с экономической точки зрения. Авторы подчеркивают, что институциональная экономика в целом и экономическая теория прав собственности, в частности, обладают огромным потенциалом в изучении как теоретических, так и практических аспектов интеллектуальных прав. По их мнению, именно институциональный подход позволит создать эффективное законодательство в данной области.

The article explores the institutional aspect of the politics of memory of World War I in Soviet Russia/ USSR in the 1920s and 1930s. The author characterizes the factors playing a special role in the politics of memory and the importance of "reformatting memory" about the war. The role of the most influential actors in the politics of memory, which played a decisive role in the adoption of the concept of "imperialist war" in mass consciousness of early Soviet society, is revealed. These major actors were the Central Committee of the RCP(b)/CPSU(b), the Red Army, and the Comintern. The specificity of activities of the Red Army and Comintern and their interaction in managing mass political campaigns on anniversaries of the war is discussed. The organizational mechanism of mass commemorations devoted to the "imperialist war" was reconstructed on the basis of archival materials of the Agitprop Central Committee of the RCP(b)/CPSU(b), the Agitpropotdel of the Political Administration of the Red Army, and the Agitprop Comintern Department. The special role of "anniversary" campaigns in promoting the concept of "imperialist war", involving the masses in public commemorations, is explored. The author analyzes the activity of state structures in creating the Associations of World War veterans, the institutionalization and ideologization of their commemorative practices, and displacement of alternative memory narratives. The article characterizes the evolution of the politics of memory andthe adjustment of the concept and change in the use of the image of war in propaganda of the mid-late 1930s. © 2020 Saint-Petersburg State University. All rights reserved. ; Russian Science Foundation, RSF: 18-18-00053 ; The research was carried out with the support of the Russian Science Foundation (project No. 18-18-00053 "Politics of memory vs historical memory: Napoleonic Wars and the First World War anniversaries").

E-commerce is gradually transformed from a version of trading activity to independent branch of global network economy which cannot be ignored. The Russian Federation is in the lead in the CIS on development of e-commerce, but lags behind world leaders in institutionalization of e-commerce. Problems of state regulation of e-commerce in Russia are analyzed in article, ways of their decision are offered.