Due to the lack of entrepreneurial activity in many regions of theRussian Federation, limited investment resources, which have become especially acute due to the pandemic, the objective assessment of entrepreneurial activity as a basis for developing an effective program to support entrepreneurship for each region becomes particularly relevant and practical. The goal of paper is development of methodological and instrumental approaches to solving the problem of quantitative assessment of business activity in the region based on comparison of a number of indicators. This article offers a methodological approach to solving the complex problem of assessing the entrepreneurial activity of regions in a multi-criteria setting using the "TOPSIS" method. Testing of the proposed tools is carried out on the example of the subjects of theRussian Federationin the Far Eastern Federal district. As a result of the implementation of the "TOPSIS" algorithm, integral estimates of the business activity of the subjects of theRussian Federationof the Far Eastern Federal district were obtained using private criteria. As a result, it is concluded that the use of the "TOPSIS" method for multi-criteria assessment of business activity of regions for its state support at the Federal and regional levels due to: the first, a mathematically sound and relatively simple algorithm for calculating integral estimates; the second, the possibility of multi-criteria problem formulation without limiting the number of criteria involved; the third, minimizing the influence of subjective factors; the forth, the possibility of using integrated assessments as ratings of regional territories and organizing monitoring of business activity in these regions based on them.

The rapidly changing conditions of the struggle for talented personnel in the context of mass digitalization require a revision of the methods of personnel management in modern organizations. The aim of the study is to determine the role of crowd-technologies in increasing the efficiency of search, selection and development of personnel in Russian organizations, as well as to develop a system of criteria and indicators for assessing the effectiveness of this type technologies. The scientific works of domestic and foreign scientists, reports of international organizations, the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, companies specializing in crowd-technologies were studied. The work used the methods of induction, comparative analysis, benchmarking of the best foreign and Russian practices of using crow- technologies in the field of HR-management and the method of conceptual and methodological modeling. The research conducted by the author made it possible to identify the socio-economic effects of the use of crowd staffing and crowd recruiting in the field of personnel search and selection, crowd training as a method of training employees, and also to propose a number of criteria and indicators for assessing the effectiveness of using these technologies in order to make effective decisions by management personnel.

This paper examines the application of the regulatory contract in the practice of economic concentration regulation from the standpoint of the theory of incomplete contracts. Based on the identification of transaction costs that arise at different stages of the conclusion and implementation of the contract, the limited rationality of both parties (including the regulator) is found. That leads us to the incompleteness of the contract. The involvement of the trustee institution in the regulatory contract is associated with the regulator's desire to remove some of the problems caused by the incompleteness of the contract (to minimize errors of type I and II under conditions of limited rationality). The risks associated with the use of the institution of trustees in regulatory contracts are also identified. Theoretical conclusions are then demonstrated on the empirical examples from Russian and foreign antitrust regulation practices. Reviewed cases: Bayer/Monsanto (2018); Anheuser-Busch Inbev / SABMiller PLC (2015); BASF/Cognis (2010).

Conscious and unconscious play a big role in the economic life of people. With the help of reflections and active thought processes, we determine the tactics and strategy of market behavior, influence the formation of supply and demand, make an alternative choice between goods and services, aim to maximize the utility of consumption, and also make important decisions. However, there are also irrational motives in the actions of the subject. It is very important to understand how conscious and unconscious neural processes affect people’s behavior both in everyday life and in times of crisis and other unstable situations. That is why, such interdisciplinary directions in science as behavioral economics and neuroeconomics, which study the process of economic decision-making, are of great popularity and interest.

The work is devoted to a review of the results of the 145rd meeting of the Dispute Club “Eco- nomic Policy Knots” of the Association of Russian Economic Think Tanks (hereinafter referred to as ARETT) on the topic "Oil market – when is it up again?". The purpose of the event was to discuss the situation in the oil and oil products market, as well as the prospects for the development of this mar- ket. The disputants were Mikhail Krutikhin, partner of the RusEnergy consulting agency, and Alex- ander Kurdin, Deputy Dean for Science of the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University and head of research in the Department for Energy and Utilities of the Analytical Center for the Govern- ment of the Russian Federation. The review presents the key ideas of the disputants, and also sum- marizes the main results of their answers to questions.

The work is devoted to a review of the results of the 147rd meeting of the Dispute Club “Eco- nomic Policy Knots” of the Association of Russian Economic Think Tanks (hereinafter referred to as ARETT) on the topic " Problems and Prospects for the Development of the Eurasian Economic Un- ion". The purpose of the event was to discuss a number of issues related to the creation of the EAEU, integration processes within the union, as well as barriers to its development. The debaters were Igor V. Pilipenko, Director of the Institute for Competitiveness and Integration, and Evgeny Y. Vinokurov, Chief Economist of the Eurasian Fund for Stabilization and Development. The review presents the key ideas of the disputants, and also summarizes the main results of their answers to questions.