CONTENTS

Volume 10, 2001

 

Investment CLIMATE

Oktai MOVSUMOV. Investment climate in the Latvia oil and gas complex

Investment problems of the Latvian oil and gas complex are of particular interest for the Russian oil, gas and other companies. This makes to be necessary a careful study of the investment climate in Latvia.

 

Investment MARKET

Boris SAFRONOV, Boris MELNIKOV, Valentina MARKOVSKAYA, Anastasia SHKURENKO. Investment market: the situation in the 1st half year 2001

The analysis of the investment situation in the 1st half year 2001, the investment structure and dynamics.

Vladimir SAVIN. Foreign investments distributed among the Russian Federation entities in the 1st quarter 2001

Though the paper accounts for a relatively short period of time (the first three months of the current year ) it is still possible to reveal certain significant features concerning every particular entity of the Russian Federation possessing a comparatively scanty economic potential and limited abilities to attract foreign investments.

 

Investment TECHNOLOGIES

Victor MOSKVIN. The risks system uncertainty in implementing projects, and the possible ways to diminish it

The author’s approach to diminishing the uncertainty within the scope of events in the course of implementing investment projects may entail certain troubles, however it also may be very useful if carried out by creative executives.

Valentin ALGIN, Margarita ALGINA. Divesting the organizations

The authors offer an approach to analyzing the investment business of commercial organizations based on the account data; an indirect method for determining the long-term investment fund sources and the ways to use them; a certain criterion for spotting organizations diverting the long-term investment sources, and a simple classification of such organizations based on the qualitative empiric loss evaluations.

Denis ELISEEV. A model of determining the volumes of private investments in the paid road construction projects

The major current problem of the country road facilities is to foster the development of motor car roads lagging behind the needs of the country’s economy. It is hard to solve the problem with funding only from the federal budget which is rather scanty. So the unconventional fund sources are to be found. Among others there may be the paid highways, bridges, tunnels and approaches to them.

Alla VLADIMIROVA, Yuri RUDNEV. A model of optimizing the investment programs with continuous flows of money payments

The model is distinguished for the following features. A group of investment projects forms an investment program at the expense of their common financial resources which have to be distributed among separate projects taking into account the efficiency of the program in the whole.

The financial implementation of the program is achieved through the difference of time of beginning a particular project while money flows to each project are changing during the period of its realization.

Alexei SHCHERBAKOV. Assessment of investment projects at an enterprise in operation

Factors influencing the choice of the assessment method. Financial validity and efficiency of the project. Project assessment methods.

 

Reference and advice

Vladimir SAVIN. The book where each word is valuable.

Comments to the book “Russian Federation agreements with foreign countries on encouragement and mutual protection of investments “. (Moscow. Yuridicheskaya literature. 2000. 432 pp.).