Vol. 16 No. 2 (2021)

A section “Economic Theory” in the second issue of the Journal outlines promising areas in the RF real estate taxation by identifying the challenges and advantages of similar systems in the CIS countries. The second article of the section theoretically justifies the phenomenon of institutional competition and offers a unified quality evaluation methodology for the existing and newly established institutions to reason the managerial decisions aimed to adjust the institutional system of the country.
Tools of the institutional economic theory described in the next section of the issue are applied to support the factors for inefficient spatial development institutions in the Russian Federation as regards the proposed quality parameters of this system. A section “Regional and Municipal Economy” contains the articles which 1) propose methodological tools to diagnose the weaknesses and strengths of socio-economic and innovative development of the region, the tools being tested in Lugansk People’s Republic; 2) reason the need for the strategic guidelines for city growth in a multi-criteria evaluation of living conditions in the Russian metropolises under urbanites’ demand for modern urban space.
The final article of the issue develops the evaluation methodology for the factors providing efficient human resource management in enterprises with multinational personnel and the algorithm of its application. The author’s methodology and algorithm are tried and tested with the expert survey and questionnaire carried out among the top managers and employees of dozens of companies in Penza region.