Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Activities of Russian Antimonopoly Authorities: Technologies, Empirical Analysis

Abstract

This work has been prepared in order to fill a gap in the theory of public administration based on the results associated with the lack of research on the practical applicability of theoretical concepts for assessing the effectiveness and efficiency of a government body to the activities of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia. To achieve this goal, the following tasks were set: to determine the results and effects for the economy from the activities of the antimonopoly authorities, to be assessed from the standpoint of achieving the goals and objectives of the state competition policy; to study the technologies for evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency that exist in international practice in terms of their applicability to the activities of Russian antimonopoly authorities; assess the objectivity of the technology used by the FAS Russia for assessing the effectiveness of the agency’s activities; formulate proposals on the formation of an evaluation system applicable in the practical activities of the antimonopoly authorities as a component of public management based on results. The article pays special attention to the concept of type I and II errors, approbation of this theoretical approach to assessing the effectiveness of the antimonopoly authority on the example of the decisions of the departmental appeal of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia, carried out by the department in relation to its territorial bodies.