On March 17, this seminar was held online. In today's economy, intangible assets surround us and their role cannot be overlooked. What is the quantitative assessment of the contribution of intangible assets to economic growth? Studies in a number of developed economies show that the share of intangible assets in GDP is significant. The return on intangible assets is comparable to the contribution of traditional capital
Measuring the dynamics of capital as a factor of production is based on the concept of capital services included in the 2008 SNA. The seminar, held on February 18, presented the calculation of capital services for the Russian economy for 1995–2016.
The event, which took place on January 21, 2020, presented the methodology for calculating the number of hours worked for Russia KLEMS 1995-2016 for 34 types of activities of the Russian classification of economic activities (OKVED) and their accuracy.
On December 3, a Russia KLEMS seminar was held for the presentation of the new data release. The indicators include time series for 34 types of activities of the Russian classification of economic activities (OKVED-1) for the period 1995-2016. New indicators have been added since the previous release in March 2017: volume indices of information and communication capital services and volume indices of labor services which take into account changes in the quality of the workforce. Russia KLEMS 2019 is adapted to the official indicators of the 1993 SNA. The adaptation of Russia KLEMS to the 2008 SNA requirements will be made in the December 2020 release.
World Bank Report “How Wealthy is Russia? Measuring Russia’s Comprehensive Wealth from 2000-2017”. The report uses capital stock data from Russia KLEMS
Ilya Voskoboynikov presented the report, on December 4, 2019, at a meeting of the Center for Economic History of the Lomonosov Moscow State University Faculty of History. The work was part of two projects of HSE University—Russia KLEMS and “Long-term economic growth and structural changes in the USSR and the CIS since 1960”.
The second open training seminar was held on November 26. The approaches to constructing performance indicators and the choice of statistical indicators depend on the tasks for which the performance analysis is required. These may relate to the study of interdependent, but not equivalent, phenomena—the development of technology, efficiency gains, lower real costs, the optimization of production methods, or higher living standards. Another important criterion when constructing performance indicators is data availability in national statistics.
On November 12, the first open training seminar of the Russia KLEMS group took place. The moderator of the seminar, Ilya Voskoboyinikov, presented the main elements of the methodology for the sectoral economic growth accounts that underlie the KLEMS methodology.
At the international conference “Experience and Challenges in Studying Incomes and Welfare in the Countries of Eastern Europe and the CIS” that went to NRU HSE, a report was presented entitled “Dynamics of productivity in sectors requiring high and low qualifications, before and after the global crisis, in the economies of Europe, Japan, Russia and the USA "sponsored by Vokoboinikov I. B., Kirsten Jager and Robert Stehrer
