Interregional Competition Research Articles

Dynamic multiobjective two-stage fuzzy stochastic strategy for optimal water allocation in inter-basin water division under changing environment: A case study of Hanjiang-to-Weihe water division in Shaanxi Province, China

Extensive environmental changes increase the complex uncertainty surrounding water allocation systems, and irrational water allocation further exacerbates competition among users, posing formidable challenges to achieving dynamic and sustainable water resource management in inter-basin water diversion (IBWD) projects. This study established a dynamic multi-objective water allocation framework to address environmental change, uncertainty of water systems, and coordination between water allocation and deficit risk. The proposed framework focuses on water allocation as a continuous, multi-period decision-making process and considers reasonable water allocation from the individual to the overall multidimensionality. The feasibility and practicality of the framework were verified by long-term water allocation planning of the Hanjiang-to-Weihe IBWD in Shaanxi Province, China. The framework integrates the Soil and Water Assessment Tool model, three classical scenarios of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6, and optimization models to realize future sustainable water allocation optimal planning. The study found that the framework enables sustainable water allocation management and provides decisions for decision-makers under different water deficit conditions. Global optimal water allocation and the maximization of system benefits were achieved using multi-objective dynamic modeling. The average satisfaction level exceeded 0.9, and the Gini coefficient was below 0.05, both of which have a synergistic effect, with the former enhancing satisfaction within each subarea, and the latter ensuring equity among the subareas. The proposed framework aims to manage water resources of IBWD sustainably and provide optimal water allocation schemes to decision-makers under changing environments, which will alleviate water scarcity and interregional competition to promote regional sustainable development.

Influence of capital allocation on interregional inequality of public services: differentiated evidence of investment by the government and market in China

ABSTRACT Interregional inequality of public services is accompanied by their combined supply by government and market. This study investigates whether the spatial allocation of regional investment influences inequality and explores the differentiated source of such influence, distinguishing between government investment and private investment in China. Results suggest that the interregional inequality of public services is spatialised by the distorted spatial allocation of investment, which manifests itself as capital market segmentation, and it is aggravated by government investment but relieved by private investment. Such effects derive from differences in local protectionism, interregional competition and capital flow between government investment and private investment.

Theoretical principles of the study of agglomeration factors of the investment attractiveness of communities

Understanding the specifics of agglomeration factors is not just an academic exercise, but a crucial step towards forming an attractive investment climate in communities. In the face of globalization and intensified interregional competition, this understanding is paramount. Theoretical comprehension of these processes is not a mere intellectual pursuit, but a necessary tool to identify and analyze the mechanisms through which agglomeration influences investment activity and the economic efficiency of communities. This, in turn, will provide practical recommendations for optimizing management decisions at the local and regional levels of government. The importance of this research is further underscored by the need for local communities to adapt to changing external conditions, identify potential growth points, and form development strategies based on internal innovative resources and agglomeration advantages. The aim of this article is to analyze the theoretical foundations of studying the agglomeration factors of the investment attractiveness of territorial communities, with a clear focus on its practical implications. The article analyzes the theoretical aspects of the interaction between agglomeration phenomena and investment activity, considering the impact of scale, level of concentration, and specialization of production processes on regional economic development. Theoretical approaches to analyzing agglomeration factors are proposed, investigating their impact on economic development and the ability to mobilize investment resources within a specific territorial unit. The development of infrastructure capabilities, initiation of innovative clusters, and support for entrepreneurial activities serve as the main directions for enhancing the investment attractiveness of agglomerations. However, it's important to note that the process of creating urban agglomerations is not a simple task. It's a long-term endeavor that provokes debates and represents a significant level of complexity. It is determined that thanks to the agglomeration effect, regional development becomes more logical, focusing on a variety of economic activities in territories optimal for their implementation. Analyzing the level of development of urban agglomerations allows for a more targeted approach to planning their further development strategies, but it's a task that requires a deep understanding of the complex dynamics at play. Keywords: investment attractiveness, socio-economic development, agglomerations, agglomeration factors, territorial communities.

Туристский потенциал административно-территориальных единиц: оценка, анализ, интерпретация

In the early 2020s, the epidemic and sanctions crisis prompted a shift in Russian external tourist flow towards the domestic market, resulting in increased interregional competition. Consequently, it has become important to identify territories suitable for economically effective tourism development. At the regional level, measuring the tourism potential of municipal districts has become a common tool for addressing this issue. However, academic literature often considers the concept of tourism potential to be subjective and contradictory, with many estimates criticized as unreliable. This paper attempts to systematize the theory and methodology for measuring Administrative Units’ Tourism Potential (AUTP). We identified six key strands of aca­demic literature that laid the groundwork for the tourism potential concept from the late 19th century to the 1960s, as well as four modern approaches to investigating AUTP in studies published from 1960 to 2024. Our analysis proposes a periodization of knowledge on AUTP development. A key outcome of our analysis is the identification of strengths and weaknesses in contemporary approaches. Building on this, we developed our own method for analyzing AUTP that addresses these weaknesses. This new approach may serve as a foundation for creating a more refined methodology for AUTP analysis, ultimately aiming to enhance the effectiveness of regional financial allocations for tourism purposes.

СПЕЦИФИКА РЕГИОНАЛЬНОЙ КОНКУРЕНТОСПОСОБНОСТИ, ПРОБЛЕМНЫЕ ВОПРОСЫ И ПУТИ ИХ РЕШЕНИЯ

Modern economic conditions are characterized by high dynamism and versatility of processes occurring at the macro and micro levels. In this context, the concept of the region’s competitive potential becomes especially relevant, since it determines the region’s ability to adapt to a changing economic environment and successfully compete in the market. Improving the competitiveness of regions is one of the key tasks of modern economic development. In the context of globalization and intensification of interregional competition, understanding and developing competitive potential are becoming crucial for ensuring sustainable growth and progress in the region.

Using Taxes to Attract the Creative Class in the Presence of a Region-Specific Rent

We analyze interregional competition between two regions A and B that use taxes to attract a representative creative class member (the entrepreneur). This entrepreneur establishes a firm in either region A or B, which guarantees her profit. However, if the entrepreneur locates in region A, she also obtains a stochastic, location-specific rent that is either high with positive probability or low with positive complementary probability. In this setting, we accomplish three tasks. First, given the values of the two tax rates, we determine the payoff to the entrepreneur in the two regions for the two possible values of the location-specific rent in A. Second, we ascertain when the entrepreneur will locate in A for both the rent values and when she will locate in B. Finally, we compute the tax rate that B will set and then specify a condition which ensures that the entrepreneur locates in B.

Incentives for local government expenditures on people’s livelihood: the role of high-speed rail

Can high-speed rail (HSR) lines create effective incentives for local governments to supply public goods for people's livelihood? This paper builds a time-varying difference-in-differences (TVDID) model and uses 2002–2018 Chinese data. The empirical results show that HSR enhances the fiscal responsiveness of local governments and creates effective incentives for local governments' expenditures on education and medical/health care; however, this “HSR effect” does not significantly influence expenditures on social security or employment. The mechanism analysis shows that HSR has a significant amplification effect on interregional competition, specifically in terms of market access and human capital agglomeration. Notably, the opening of HSR lines forms a new “incentive-constraint” mechanism for local governments to supply public services for people's livelihood from both the supply and demand sides, and the fiscal and administrative capacities of local governments can strengthen the influence of HSR lines on the supply of public goods for people's livelihood.

INTEGRATIVE PROCESSES IN THE AGRICULTURAL COMPLEX OF THE NATIONAL ECONOMY

In the article, the study of the essence of agro-industrial integration was further developed. It is well-founded that the creation of integrated agricultural formations contributes to the achievement of a synergistic effect, however, excessive integration has negative socio-economic consequences: monopolization of the agricultural market, making it impossible to form competitive advantages of small commodity producers, reducing the need for labor, and therefore the threat of unemployment in the countryside, which emphasizes the need for anti-monopoly control and regulation of the economy by the state, as well as support for alternative forms of combining the efforts of agricultural producers, in particular, agricultural service cooperatives. The question of the formation of product sub-complexes within the agro-industrial complex was studied. The peculiarities of inter-branch integrated structures and components of the agrarian-industrial production cycle are considered. The positive consequences of the functioning of product verticals are highlighted. Scientific views on the role of the agrarian sphere in the economy through the prism of trends in the development of the world economy are determined. It is well-founded that the main criterion for determining the role of agro-industrial complex in the economy of rural areas is the employment level of the population. The role of the agricultural sector in the regions of Ukraine is analyzed based on the employment criterion. A mechanism for the development of the agro-industrial sector as the basis of the economy of rural areas is proposed, the implementation of which is based on integration, investment and innovation directions. It is substantiated that despite the diversification processes of the economy of these territorial entities, most of them have agro-industrial specialization, so their development depends on the changes taking place in the agricultural sector. But the inconsistency of the impact of European integration on the development of the agrarian sector causes an equally contradictory situation in the socio-economic development of rural areas, as it involves the uncertainty of external conditions for their functioning and the strengthening of interregional competition. All this requires a new theoretical assessment of the peculiarities of the functioning of the agricultural sector as the basis for the development of the economy of rural areas in the context of European integration processes.

Using Taxes to Attract the Creative Class in the Presence of a Region-Specific Rent

We analyze interregional competition between two regions _A_ and _B_ that use taxes to attract a representative creative class member (the entrepreneur). This entrepreneur establishes a firm in either region _A_ or _B_ and this action guarantees her profit. However, if the entrepreneur locates in region _A_ then she also obtains a stochastic, location-specific rent that is either high with positive probability or low with positive complementary probability. In this setting, we accomplish three tasks. First, given values of the two tax rates, we determine the payoff to the entrepreneur in the two regions for the two possible values of the location-specific rent in _A_. Second, we ascertain when the entrepreneur will locate in _A_ for both values of the rent and when she will locate in _B_. Finally, we compute the tax rate that _B_ will set and then specify a condition which ensures that the entrepreneur locates in _B_.

Post-Soviet identity: integration resources

In the context of globalization, increased inter-regional competition, and acute information confrontation, the need for analysis of identity has become more relevant. Identity serves as a cognitive framework that shapes an individual’s social behavior, a coordinate system that allows individuals to adapt and creatively transform their surrounding reality, and a set of the most significant civic values such as solidarity and integration. This is particularly relevant for Russia considering its changing geopolitical position in the modern world. The authors of the article have examined the characteristics of post-Soviet identity as established in the scientific discourse. Expressions of spatial-territorial identity within the post-Soviet identity of modern Russians are analyzed based on scientific works and results of empirical research using the standard methodology of the All-Russian Research Program “Socio-Cultural Evolution of Russia and its Regions”. The authors concluded that the post-Soviet identity as a social construct possesses certain potential. Local-settlement identity prevails over the broader Russian and macro-political identity (within the scope of the article — identity among residents of the former USSR republics). About half of the respondents feel a connection with the people of their settlement. However, thirty years after the USSR’s collapse, a third of the respondents feel a connection with the residents of Russia and the former USSR republics, a third do not feel this connection, and a third are indifferent. This indicates that the All-Russian and post-Soviet space is an arena for acute ideological confrontation, with the possibility of any ideology prevailing, provided it proposes the most suitable goals, tasks, and means for the social system. To address the complex challenges facing Russia as a modern state, a new ideological project (without the prefix “post-” in the name) of spatial-territorial, national-civic identity is needed, shaping the individual as a subject of social development.

A way of 100 years

Novosibirsk College of Transport Technologies named after N.A. Lunin celebrates a centenary. All implemented professional educational programs have successfully passed professional and public accreditation, and the college has passed the procedure for independent assessment of the quality of the conditions for the implementation of educational activities. Every year the college graduates over 300 specialists, of which at least 90 % are employed at the enterprises of the West Siberian Railway.For high performance in the training of young specialists, the college was awarded diplomas and letters of thanks from the administration of the Novosibirsk Region, the management of Russian Railways and the West Siberian Railway. Repeatedly, the educational institution became the winner of the Interregional competition “Enterprise of the Year of Siberia” and the city competition “Novosibirsk Mark”, the college was listed on the Board of Honor of Novosibirsk.Currently, 1,235 students study at the college full-time, including 350 in the Baraba branch. Every year more than 1,000 people improve their qualifi cations, undergo training and retraining at the vocational training department. Consistently high indicators of the quality of education have been achieved: the state task for the admission of students, the safety of the contingent, and employment is carried out annually.

Efficient Regional Taxes in the Presence of Mobile Creative Capital

We study interregional competition for mobile creative capital between regions A and B. Regional authorities (RAs) in both regions use tax policy to attract the creative capital possessing members of the creative class to their region. The resulting tax revenues help RAs finance other objectives such as the provision of one or more public goods. In this setting, we accomplish five tasks. First, we explain the significance of a parameter ζ that is related to the marginal product of creative capital. Second, we compute the Nash equilibrium tax rates when each RA chooses its tax rate to maximize tax revenue. Third, we discuss how a decline in ζ affects the Nash equilibrium tax rates. Fourth, we determine the two efficient tax rates. Finally, we discuss the implications of our analysis for a policy that raises revenue by taxing creative capital.

Элементы и этапы разработки региональных финансовых стратегий

Choosing the appropriate elements and stages of a regional financial strategy is an important scientific and methodological task. According to the theory of strategy and the methodology of strategizing, this aspect is also important for regional financial systems. In the context of limited resources and intense inter-regional competition, a regional financial strategy should be consistent with higher-level strategies and attract financial resources to implement the local strategic priorities. The theory of strategy and strategizing methodology developed by Professor V.L. Kvint can be applied to regional financial strategies. The article features philosophical foundations of the strategy: values, elements, stages, stakeholders, and their relationship in the process of regional financial strategizing.

MAIN FACTORS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERREGIONAL AND INTERMUNICIPAL COOPERATION AT THE PRESENT STAGE OF SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT

The article differentiates the concepts of inter-territorial, inter-regional and inter-municipal cooperation. In the first case, we are mainly talking about the inter-territorial interaction of enterprises of different forms of ownership, carrying out different types of activities. They are based on cooperative ties. Interregional cooperation for the development of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in modern conditions is determined by strengthening their economic ties, optimizing the infrastructure facilities located in them on the basis of cooperation between their activities, eliminating overlapping economic structures with the inadmissibility of unjustified interregional competition, combining the potentials of regions for the implementation of large-scale investment projects, accelerated spread of innovation. Interregional and intermunicipal cooperation differ in: the legal status of the parties or subjects of interaction; the set of legal norms governing the relationship of the parties; the main areas of interaction; the scale of interaction. The factors influencing the formation of the main directions of interregional and intermunicipal cooperation are the focus on: better satisfaction of the socio-economic needs of the population; creation of conditions for the development of entrepreneurial activity; formation of the necessary production infrastructure. The following are named as restrictions in their implementation: contradictions in the legal framework of its participants; multidirectionality in the system of their interests; resource shortage. The mechanism of interaction between the factors that form the effectiveness of interregional and intermunicipal cooperation is shown, as well as the institutions for its provision: the creation of joint ventures, production sharing agreements, and the implementation of strategic cooperation.

Regional development management in the context of interregional competition

Regional development management in the context of interregional competition

Tax policy and interregional competition for mobile venture capital by the creative class

We study how tax policy affects the competition for venture capital by the creative class in two regions A and B. The creative class in each region produces a final good with venture capital and creative capital. Venture capital moves freely between the two regions and the representative creative class member in each region has access to an initial amount of venture capital. Each region taxes venture capital at a particular rate and the tax revenue is paid out as a transfer to the representative creative class member. In this setting, we perform five tasks. We begin by determining the first-best tax rates in the two regions. Second, we solve for the net price of venture capital and then express the objective function that is to be maximized in each region as a function of this price. Third, we compute the first-order necessary conditions that describe the optimal tax rates in the two regions and show that the sign of the tax rate depends on the net exporting position of the region. Fourth, for specific parameter values, we calculate the two tax response functions and discuss their properties. Finally, we compute the two equilibrium taxes as a function of the model’s key parameters and show that these taxes must be of opposite signs.

ВОСТОЧНЫЙ ВЕКТОР ЭНЕРГЕТИЧЕСКОЙ ПОЛИТИКИ РОССИИ: ОЦЕНКА РЕЗУЛЬТАТИВНОСТИ НА ОСНОВЕ ПРОСТРАНСТВЕННОЙ ВЕРСИИ АНАЛИЗА СТРУКТУРНЫХ СДВИГОВ

The authors consider the changes in the fuel and energy complex of the Russian Far East occurred under the influence of the Eastern vector in the energy policy. Based on the employment and GVA regional complex data, the authors carry out a traditional and spatial shift-share analysis for the period of 2012–2019. The extractive industries of the fuel and energy complex in the Far East are distinguished by positive competitive effects. It is shown that the most important factor in the formation of competitive effects are gains/losses in interregional competition, and not spatial externalities.

Образ Татарстана в культурной политике и стратегиях регионального развития (2013–2019 гг.)

The recent decades in the Russian Federation were characterized by a change in the strategies of regions and their inclusion in the logic of mutual competition. This made it relevant to search for the distinctiveness of each of them, building public ethno-cultural images. The purpose of the article is to reveal the content and specifics of its image formed in Tatarstan through official legal and program documents related to culture and socio-cultural development. The lower time limits of the study are determined by hosting the first sports mega-event in the republic − the Universiade-2013, the upper ones − by the last pre-pandemic year (2019). The main research method is the selection and traditional analysis of laws, strategies, programs, concepts adopted in the republic and related to ethno-cultural and strategic territorial development. The conducted analysis determined two main directions of representation of the Republic of Tatarstan. The first one is consistent with the strategies of the 1990s – early 2000s, when its ethno-cultural component came to the fore. In the documents related to it, Tatarstan is promoted as a historically established multicultural region, a territory of interethnic harmony, parity of Tatar and Russian cultures, Islam and Orthodoxy, as well as a center for the development of Tatar culture, Tatar identity. The second direction is connected with the reorientation of the activity of the regional elites towards the search for new socio-economic meanings, however, related to socio-cultural ones. The Republic is being promoted as a modernized competitive region of the country, in which special attention is paid to a person, the development of his abilities and the realization of needs, including in a safe and comfortable socio-cultural environment. The ethnocultural distinctiveness of the territory is interpreted as an advantage in interregional competition, a resource for attracting investment and social capital.

РЕГУЛЮВАННЯ ІННОВАЦІЙНОЇ ДІЯЛЬНОСТІ В УМОВАХ СУЧАСНОЇ ПАРАДИГМИ ЕКОНОМІЧНОГО РОЗВИТКУ

In the article the pressing questions of transition of national economy are infected in the mode of mushroom, steady and hi-tech growth in the conditions in the new technological mode based on innovative modernisation of scientific and technical sphere. The modern paradigm of doing business, that dominate of knowledge and envisages more flexible politics in relation to adjusting of innovative activity is considered. An accent is done on forming of open case internal and external stream and research development frame in the dynamic environment of generation and commercialization of innovations on the basis of innovative cooperation as into the system, so with an environment, id est creation of integrated control system by innovative streams from an initial point to end - user. Outlined primary tasks in relation to conditioning of innovative development of national economy for an account: strengthening the processes of interregional integration; optimization of the tax system of subjects of economic activity, that increase the fixed accets and fate of technological innovations in a productive process; providing of purposeful state support of enterprises that invest in the production of innovative goods; creation of the system of state guarantees for physical and legal persons that accept active voice in innovative activity; forming of the optimal legal field is for an interregional competition and bringing in of investments in basic capital. The certain are important to composition in the complex of measures in relation to the modernization of the scientifically - technological sphere, namely: exposure of perspective directions of the growing economy; a revival of the applied science is in the form of state -private partnership; expansion of government is on the realization of scientific researches; development of effective innovative infrastructure; forming and development of productive- technological complexes; creation of institutes of financing of innovative projects; increase of investment charges of the state; use mechanisms of the direct state financing and address financial help to science-intensive industries of industry; by introduction of mechanism of insurance of innovative risks.

Tax Policy and Interregional Competition for Mobile Venture Capital by the Creative Class

Tax Policy and Interregional Competition for Mobile Venture Capital by the Creative Class