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{"title":"About Scientometric Rankings and Journal BACchanalia","authors":"A. Rubinstein","doi":"10.17323/1813-8691-2023-27-2-290-305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17323/1813-8691-2023-27-2-290-305","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents the results of historical and methodological research into the formation of special lists of economic journals of RSCI and VAK, and a comparative analysis of these lists. It is shown that each of them is based on Scientometric indicators and almost identical methods of calculating journal rankings. However, the goals pursued, and the nature of such lists are quite different: in one case the journal lists of RSCI are strictly informative in nature, in the other case they are formed by the Ministry of Education and Science and the Higher Attestation Commission as an obligatory norm for candidates for a Ph. At the same time, the widely divergent results of the ranking of journals raise the most serious doubts about their adequacy to scientific realities. It is shown that these doubts relate to the correctness of the information resource application: an unreasonably expansive interpretation of the indicators themselves and, most im­portantly, the use of a combination of objective Scientometric indicators and subjective expert evaluations when constructing the rankings. It is not an easy task to combine two different types of information in a single integral rating. Its solution, first of all, requires the involvement of competent and independent experts. Perhaps an open democratic procedure of selecting such a group of experts or defining a representative sample from a large array of specialists is needed. It is necessary to use an adequate algorithm of aggregation of two different types of information. Arbitrary selection of weights is simply unacceptable here. One of the final conclusions of the article is related to the recommendation to abolish VAK requirements to any journal lists or to transfer these functions to their own Academic Councils of universities and academic institutions.","PeriodicalId":37657,"journal":{"name":"HSE Economic Journal","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136367662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Illiquidity Effects in the Russian Stock Market","authors":"S. Gurov","doi":"10.17323/1813-8691-2023-27-1-78-102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17323/1813-8691-2023-27-1-78-102","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37657,"journal":{"name":"HSE Economic Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67840078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cournot Equilibrium under Fuzzy Random Yield","authors":"A. Shvedov","doi":"10.17323/1813-8691-2023-27-3-435-448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17323/1813-8691-2023-27-3-435-448","url":null,"abstract":"Cournot duopoly with yield uncertainty is of interest both from a theoretical standpoint and a practical standpoint. In many sectors of economy, the actual products produced and the targeted quantities do not coincide. Commonly, random variables are used to model yield uncertainty. However, the models with random yields have a known drawback. When the number of firms greater than three, the expected firm’s profit first increases when level of uncertainty (i.e.,variance of a random variable) increases and then decreases. When the number of firms no greater than three, there is no that drawback, the expected firm’s profit always decreases when level of uncertainty increases. In this paper, fuzzy sets are used for the first time to model Cournot competition in the presence of yield uncertainty. This article deals both with Cournot oligo­poly with fuzzy yields and Cournot oligopoly with fuzzy random yields. In the fuzzy random approach, probabilistic methods and fuzzy methods are combined. In this paper, equilibrium quantities and expected firms’ profits are found. For models with fuzzy yield, the drawback mentioned above is absent. For any number of firms, expected profit of a firm decreases when level of uncertainty increases. Also, in the fuzzy random approach, Cournot duopoly in which one firm is overconfident is studied. That firm forecasts the quantity produced unreasonably accurately. For this case, equilibrium quantities and expected firms’ profits are also presented in the paper.","PeriodicalId":37657,"journal":{"name":"HSE Economic Journal","volume":"2014 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135156387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Monetary Rules: Evolution, Shortcomings, and Empirical Evaluation of Usage","authors":"A. Korikov, K. Yurchenko, O. Mariev, N. Kislyak, K. Sidorov","doi":"10.17323/1813-8691-2023-27-3-364-389","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17323/1813-8691-2023-27-3-364-389","url":null,"abstract":"This study provides a description of the monetary rules evolution, applied in Central banks’ monetary policy decisions across different countries, and the research defines its limitations. The authors underline the increasing importance of monetary rules over several last decades, providing predictability of monetary policy. And, consequently, its effectiveness compared with macroeconomic targets, which Central banks are obliged to reach. The paper provides a discussion of rules’ configurations and implementation practices between economists and methodological foundations of monetary rules’ application. The application has been considered in the historical and economic context, which peculiarities frequently lead to economists’ radical revision of monetary policy instruments’ usage in academics and in practice including regimes of targeting exchange rate, money supply and inflation. The authors conduct as empirical assessment of the FRS, the ECB and Bank of Russia monetary policy decisions’ compliance with monetary rules, based on vintage data and key rate variations determined by current macroeconomic conditions and its dynamics. The assessment demonstrates that Bank of Russia followed monetary rules logic at most from the end of 2013 to the end of 2021. In the final part, the researchers make an attempt to answer a question, if monetary rules, which configurations depend on Central banks’ targets to a large extent, are benchmarks for the policy assessment.","PeriodicalId":37657,"journal":{"name":"HSE Economic Journal","volume":"148 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135158179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Financial Frictions in a DSGE Model of Russian Economy","authors":"M. Elkina","doi":"10.17323/1813-8691-2023-27-2-159-195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17323/1813-8691-2023-27-2-159-195","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we study whether financial frictions should be accounted for in a DSGE mo­del of Russian economy. We compare the baseline two-sector DSGE model of a small open eco­nomy with its version extended by financial accelerator and another version which assumes an agency problem between bankers and depositors. Using calibrated versions of these models, we show how the assumptions regarding the peculiarities of financial market change the transmission mechanisms of macroeconomic shocks. Specifically, the responses of investment and consequently other variables depend on the dynamics of risk premium. In case of financial accelerator model risk premium depends on net worth and leverage ratio of capital owners. In case of agency problem model financial position of bankers drives changes in risk premium. As a result, the risk premium either changes in the same direction in both models or changes in the opposite way. It determines whether the reaction of investment is amplified in case of financial frictions or not. Estimation of all three models using the same data set which does not include data on risk premium allows us to conclude that the baseline model fits the data better than models with financial frictions. However, the difference between the baseline model and the financial accele­rator model is not that substantial. Estimation of two financial frictions models on the full data set which includes data on risk premium shows that the financial accelerator model is strongly preferred to the agency problem model. In addition, impulse response functions from estimated models indicate that accounting for financial frictions can noticeably alter our assessment of transmission of various shocks. For example, if we do not account for financial accelerator, we can underestimate the positive response of output to government consumption shock and underestimate the reaction of output and inflation to monetary shocks. Moreover, financial sector shocks play a non-negligible role in explaining the fluctuations in output and other variables in historical data. We conclude that optimal economic policy decisions require using a combina tion of DSGE models with different financial sector assumptions.","PeriodicalId":37657,"journal":{"name":"HSE Economic Journal","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136372667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Comparison of Cryptocurrency and Stock Market Volatility Forecast Models","authors":"A. Aganin, V. Manevich, A. Peresetsky, P. Pogorelova","doi":"10.17323/1813-8691-2023-27-1-49-77","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17323/1813-8691-2023-27-1-49-77","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37657,"journal":{"name":"HSE Economic Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67840533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Building a GVAR Model for the Russian Economy","authors":"A. Zubarev, M. Kirillova","doi":"10.17323/1813-8691-2023-27-1-9-32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17323/1813-8691-2023-27-1-9-32","url":null,"abstract":"The relationship between the economies of various countries and their dependence on the world markets indicate that for econometric analysis of the impact of external shocks on a particular economy, it is necessary to use a model of the global economy. The aim of this paper is to build a global vector autoregression model (GVAR), including Russia as one of the regions, and to obtain the impact of some external economic shocks on Russian macroeconomic indicators. We build a model that includes 41 of the world's major economies, including Russia, and the oil market. The special features of our model are structural shifts in the dynamics of Russian output and the new specification of oil supply and oil demand. Impulse response functions are used to obtain quantitative estimates. In this paper, we analyze the reaction of outputs, oil production volumes and oil prices in response to the output shocks of China and the United States. In response to the negative shock of output in the world's leading economies, outputs in the rest of the world declined for at least the first year after the shock. There was also a significant decline in oil prices and no significant change in oil production volumes in most countries. In addition, as part of the conditional forecast, we estimated the impact of the decline in global demand due to the Covid-19 pandemic on the Russian GDP as 1,3% drop. The rest of the decline in Russian GDP can be attributed to the internal effects of the pandemic (lockdown). We also obtained a scenario forecast of the dynamics of Russian GDP depending on a decrease in trade and Russian oil price discount, within which the fall in Russian output could reach 3.3% in 2022. © 2023 Publishing House of the Higher School of Economics. All rights reserved.","PeriodicalId":37657,"journal":{"name":"HSE Economic Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67840193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Impact of Geographical Diversification on Credit Risk of Microfinance Organizations in Armenia","authors":"A. Mkhitaryan","doi":"10.17323/1813-8691-2023-27-1-103-121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17323/1813-8691-2023-27-1-103-121","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyzes the existence of relationship between credit risk and the geographical diversification of financial institutions, originating from emerging countries. Due to economic unstable situation in the world caused by Covid-19, credit portfolios of banks and MFIs caused negatively which in some situations can lead to default. In the current situation, it became necessary to discover new approaches to credit risk management and new researches to be done. For this purpose, financial indicators of MFIs operating in Armenia were evaluated and Pearson analysis of MFIs data, risks & profitability efficiency calculation was made to take out impact of diversification of MFIs on credit risk reduction. Both international literature and practical data of MFIs operating in Armenia were identified. Another research was made for taking out the number of branches and credit risk correlation. Our findings show that geographic diversification is statistically significant with the expansion of gross loans. In contrast, empirical results suggest that the geographical diversification of MFIs does not have a significant correlation with the size of the credit risk reserve, which means that the representation of MFIs in different regions in the form of branches will not always lead to credit risk reduction, and in some cases may lead to operational risks and additional costs. We adopt cost funding and assets size variables impact assessment evaluation through instrumental variables method. Our results confirm the endogenous nature of those variables with risk level of MFIs. © 2023 Publishing House of the Higher School of Economics. All rights reserved.","PeriodicalId":37657,"journal":{"name":"HSE Economic Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67840397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"India-China Trade: History, Present State and Prospects","authors":"N. Galistcheva, M. Reshchikova","doi":"10.17323/1813-8691-2022-26-2-307-332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17323/1813-8691-2022-26-2-307-332","url":null,"abstract":"The article analyzes the emergence of the modern India-China trade. The authors examine historic foundations of the mutual trade and its growth dynamics. Particular attention is paid to the recent changes in the bilateral trade connected with difficulties in India-China relations and economic problems caused by the global coronavirus pandemic. The article focuses on the commodity structure of the Indian export to China and import from the PRC, with the lack of clearly visible tendencies in annual supply along with a strong trend in purchase being detected. Special importance is attached to the analysis of the technology level of the mutual trade. Prevailing low-technology and medium-technology level products in the Indian export are assessed, and it is stated that the share of high-technology level goods is growing slowly. At the same time, it is underlined that the Indian import from China consists mainly of high value-added products. The authors study the importance of the bilateral trade, concluding that China's role in the overall Indian trade is greater than visa versa. A range of trade indices are estimated that allow to evaluate the effectiveness of the mutual trade comprehensively. A relatively low intensity of India-China commercial ties is emphasized, and an average level of intraindustry trade, as well as high complementarity of India-China export and import are pointed out. The article also analyzes the trade in services the volume of which is almost impossible to assess due to the lack of statistical data. The authors identify the main problems impeding the effective trade development, including trade imbalances, namely the high trade deficit and uneven export and import structure, the closed nature of the both countries' markets, high tariff and non-tariff barriers and India's trade dependence on China. Regarding the prospects of the trade, the authors examine the Indian policy aimed at overcoming the imbalances, identify the factors that promote bilateral interaction and assess the possibility of creating a free trade zone between India and China. © 2022 Publishing House of the Higher School of Economics. All rights reserved.","PeriodicalId":37657,"journal":{"name":"HSE Economic Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67838242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Does Innovation Increase Labor Wage and Boost Firm’s Financial Performance? Evidence of Agricultural Firms in Vietnam with Bayesian Approach","authors":"Quang Phu Tran, The Kien Nguyen","doi":"10.17323/1813-8691-2022-26-3-475-486","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17323/1813-8691-2022-26-3-475-486","url":null,"abstract":"Many studies have agreed that innovation leads to product and process improvements, allows firms to grow more quickly, be more efficient, and ultimately be more profitable than non-innovators. In this study, we explore the impact of innovation (including product innovation, process innovation, organizational innovation, and marketing innovation) on firms’ financial performance and employees’ wages in Vietnamese agricultural firms. We take a survey from 257 agricultural firms in Vietnam and analyze our dataset with the Bayesian multiple regression approach. Our results show that product, process, and marketing innovations positively affect firms’ financial performance, while organizational innovation contrib-utes positively to an increase in average labor wage. These results give some inside implications for firms and the government in distributing resources efficiently for promoting different aspects of innovation.","PeriodicalId":37657,"journal":{"name":"HSE Economic Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67839015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}