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Крочи, профессор, директор по Отпечатано в ООП Издательства научной работе Центра исследований Д. Тсомокос, Оксфордский универ- Финуниверситета в области энергетики и экономики ситет, старший научный сотрудник (Ленинградский проспект, д. 49). окружающей среды Университета Лондонской школы экономики 16+ Боккони (Италия) (Великобритания) Review of Business and Economics Studies Volume 3, Number 4, 2015 CONTENTS Innovation Policy in Contemporary Russia and the Struggle for Infl uence between the Leading Groups within the Establishment Alexander Shatilov, Pavel Seleznev . .5 Energy Price Shocks in Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium: The Case of Bangladesh Sakib B. Amin, Laura Marsiliani . .12 Validity of Fama and French Model on RTS Index Sergey Ozornov . .22 Financial Market Modeling with Quantum Neural Networks Carlos Pedro Gonçalves . .44 Analysis of Long-Term Shareholders Value Drivers: Evidence from UC RUSAL Nadezhda Trusova . .64 Success Determinants of Crowdfunding Projects Fedor Levin . .79 Geometry of Economics: Volumetric Distribution Analysis of Economic Continuity and Stability Ilya Kuntsevich . .88 Вестник исследований бизнеса и экономики № 4, 2015 CОДЕРЖАНИЕ Современная инновационная политика России в контексте борьбы за влияние ведущих элитных групп Александр Шатилов, Павел Селезнев . .5 Колебания цен на электроэнергию в динамической стохастической модели общего равновесия на примере Бангладеш Сакиб Амин, Лаура Марсилиани . .12 Оценка адекватности модели Фама-Френча на индексе РТС Сергей Озорнов . 22 Моделирование финансовых рынков с использованием квантовых нейронных сетей Карлуш Педро Гонсалвеш . 44 Анализ факторов создания долгосрочной акционерной стоимости бизнеса на примере компании «РУСАЛ» Надежда Трусова . 64 Определяющие факторы успеха краудфандинговых проектов Федор Левин . 79 Геометрия в экономике: анализ экономической непрерывности и стабильности с помощью объемного распределения Илья Кунцевич . 88 Review of Business and Economics Studies Volume 3, Number 4, 2015 Innovation Policy
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