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We present a model for freight train time prediction based on station network analysis and specific feature engineering. We discuss the first pipeline to improve the freight flight duration prediction in Russia. While every freight company use only reference book made by RZD (Russian Railways) based on railroad distances with accuracy measured in days, we argue that one could predict the flight duration with error less than twenty hours while decreasing error to twelve hours for certain type of freight trains.
A great number of economists all around the world research theories of life cycle models. PMBOK and literature on project management have lack of information about the influence of project management on the management of the whole company at different life cycle stages. During 1990-s project management instruments in Russian companies were not used almost at all, but in 2003–2007 these instruments were in high demand. What were the reasons of these changes? The answer to this question is based on information about differences between goals of companies at various life cycle stages.
The paper examines the structure, governance, and balance sheets of state-controlled banks in Russia, which accounted for over 55 percent of the total assets in the country's banking system in early 2012. The author offers a credible estimate of the size of the country's state banking sector by including banks that are indirectly owned by public organizations. Contrary to some predictions based on the theoretical literature on economic transition, he explains the relatively high profitability and efficiency of Russian state-controlled banks by pointing to their competitive position in such functions as acquisition and disposal of assets on behalf of the government. Also suggested in the paper is a different way of looking at market concentration in Russia (by consolidating the market shares of core state-controlled banks), which produces a picture of a more concentrated market than officially reported. Lastly, one of the author's interesting conclusions is that China provides a better benchmark than the formerly centrally planned economies of Central and Eastern Europe by which to assess the viability of state ownership of banks in Russia and to evaluate the country's banking sector.
The paper examines the principles for the supervision of financial conglomerates proposed by BCBS in the consultative document published in December 2011. Moreover, the article proposes a number of suggestions worked out by the authors within the HSE research team.