Leading organizational and economic models for the development of inbound medical tourism in Russia

This article is an attempt of summarizing key economic approaches to cartel agreements analysis, its stability, ways of estimating social consequences of cartel agreements. It is alleged that the traditional way of understanding the cartels’ role as completely negative is not accurate; this type of inter-corporate agreements may also bring positive effects on industrial markets. Typical limits of analytical apparatus, contradictions that appear while interpreting results of specific economic models are also represented in the article, as well as substantiation of a discrete role of pricing factor within the analysis of anti-competitive agreements.

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Economic models of Environment monitoring under imperfect information and high Costs

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2014-4-99-122 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 99-122

Author(s):

M. Levin ◽

K. Matrosova

Keyword(s):

Environmental Monitoring ◽

Environmental Regulation ◽

Environmental Economics ◽

Imperfect Information ◽

Central Element ◽

Economic Models ◽

Environment Monitoring ◽

Nature Protection ◽

Protection Measures ◽

Effective System

The paper considers monitoring of environmental change as the central element of environmental regulation. Monitoring, as each kind of principalagent relations, easily gives rise to corruptive behavior. In the paper we analyze economic models of environmental monitoring with high costs, incomplete information and corruption. These models should be the elements of environmental economics and are needed to create an effective system of nature protection measures.

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Kornai, Schumpeter, and Economic Theory

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2012-8-145-152 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 145-152 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

V. Maevsky

Keyword(s):

Economic Theory ◽

Economic System ◽

Evolutionary Theory ◽

Economic Models ◽

Macro Level ◽

Mainstream Economic ◽

Level Of Analysis

The author claims that J. Kornai in his paper Innovation and Dynamism (Voprosy Ekonomiki. 2012. No 4) ignored the understanding of socialism as a specific type of culture and not just as an economic system. He also shows profound differences between Schumpeters theory and mainstream economic models. Evolutionary theory, he claims, may itself become mainstream if Schumpeters legacy is not interpreted straightforwardly and if evolutionary economists consider not only micro-, but also macro-level of analysis in studying macrogenerations of capital of a different age.

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