Vol. 16 No. 1 (2021)

The Editorial Board of the Journal is proud to publish the first issue of the 2021 “Perm University Herald. Economy” in its updated design prepared under the scientific article layout recommendations given by Olga V. Kirillova and Natalya G. Popova, the experts from the International Business Center, at a training seminar “Developing the competencies of the authors and editors in preparing the international scientific publications and journals”.

A section “Economic Theory” describes the results of the fundamental analysis of the industry markets’ research subject and develops the unique approach to the author’s methodology; the scientific achievements of the dysfunction theory and institutional trap theories are systematized in the studies of different areas in the Russian institutional school and future development of the dysfunctions theory;   the factors with their impact on the horizontal economic rent which illustrates the employees’ income redistribution in the private sector of the economy to the public employees in case of the developed countries are defined.

An article in a section “Economic-Mathematical Modeling” constructs different binary choice models to predict the fraudulent transactions, and these models are compared with the neuronets and tree ensembles based models to justify the choice of the best model.

A final section “Enterprise Economy and Management of Enterprises, Organizations, Branches, Complexes” gives a scientific justification for the development of the categories and concepts in the training personnel with regard to the digitalization of the economic activities and relationships; a methodology of the strategic planning for the public support efficiency in agriculture is developed, and methodology’s testing results are described.