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15 November 2019
Advice from Above: Sociologists Have Assessed the Impact that Priests Have on How Their Parishioners Vote
Political preferences of at least 21% of Orthodox voters in Russia may be influenced by the clergy and their fellow believers. Based on an online survey of 2,735 respondents, HSE University sociologists Kirill Sorvin and Maksim Bogachev concluded that religion has a considerable impact on people’s political choices. The scholars assume that the share of those who vote ‘in an Orthodox way’ may be higher: many respondents were under 34, and young people are a minority among Orthodox believers in Russia.
14 November 2019
Interdisciplinary Research: New Prospects for Philosophy
What connects philosophers, linguists, and logicians? How do you develop partnerships with dozens of foreign research centres in just six months? Can science exist in isolation from the outside world? Elena Dragalina-Chernaya, Head of the International Laboratory for Logic, Linguistics, and Formal Philosophy, discusses these and other issues.
14 November 2019
Efficient, but Not without Help: How Russian State-owned Banks Differ from Their Foreign Counterparts
HSE University economists analyzed what banks performed best on the Russian market from 2004 to 2015 - state, private, or foreign-owned ones. They found out that during stable economic and political periods, foreign-owned banks tend to take the lead, while during a crisis period, such as from 2008 to 2013, state-owned banks outperformed them. The article was published in the  Emerging Markets Finance and Trade journal.

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Оценка социальной ставки дисконтирования методом социальной альтернативной стоимости капитала

Экономическая наука современной России. 2014. № 1 (64). С. 37-47.
Коссова Т. В., Шелунцова М. А.

The paper continues our previous article «Social Discount Rate for Russia: methodology, appraisal, regional differences» published in 2012 in this journal (№ 3 (58)). The present paper describes situations where a social opportunity cost of capital approach should be used for evaluation of a social discount rate. We consider international practice in applying this approach, regard methodology and make calculations for Russia. It is revealed that the approach is relevant when a social problem can be solved in both the public sector and the private sector. It is also helpful for evaluation of budget performance. The necessity of taking into account particular sectoral features of public investments is substantiated. The results of calculations and differences found are explained.

Research target: Economics and Management (including Public Administration)
Priority areas: economics
Language: Russian
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Keywords: evaluation of government investment performanceinvestment projects of the public sectorsocial discount ratesocial opportunity cost of capital
Publication based on the results of: Social and economic determinants of active aging and public policy response towards the elderly(2014)
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