Regional Economic Development in Russia (eBook)

This book gathers selected papers presented at the International Scientific Conference 'Economics in the Changing World,' held on June 26-27, 2018 at the Institute of Management, Economics and Finance of Kazan Federal University (Kazan, Russia). The conference featured contributions by leading specialists in the field of management, territorial development, and state, regional and municipal management, covering the modern trends in the development of economic complexes and firms, economics of innovative processes, social policy, financial analysis, and mathematical methods in economic research. The book highlights new approaches for the development of various sectors of the Russian economy and individual markets, as well as for the efficiency of entrepreneurship in general. It also analyzes the concept, meaning and directions of the socio-economic development of the regional subjects in the Russian Federation. The scientific studies included make a significant contribution to the development of entrepreneurship, regional management, rationalization and optimization of resource use, state territorial administration, and sustainable economic growth in the regions and the transport infrastructure.

Safiullin Lenar Nailevich is a Doctor of Economics, Professor, and the Scientific Deputy Director and Head of the Department of Financial Markets and Financial Institutes at Kazan Federal University's Institute of Management, Economics and Finance. His main research areas are the growth of public welfare in heterogeneous markets; consumer behavior and demand in knowledge-based economies, including problems of information asymmetry; entrepreneurship; and competitiveness, competitive advantages and quality in labor and product markets. Safiullin has published over 100 scientific papers, including 60 papers in international journals included in the Scopus database.

Niyaz Gabdrakhmanov is currently a Research Fellow at the Institute of Education, Higher School of Economics, Russia, and was previously an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Management, Economics and Finance, Kazan Federal University, Russia. His main areas of scientific interest are spatial analysis, geodemography, regional higher education systems, economic and social geography, spatial modeling, geographic information systems, and cartography. Gabdrakhmanov has published over 100 scientific papers.