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The aim of the article is to study the structure of the market of heat energy producers by organizational and legal forms of economic management and by types of ownership, to determine on this basis the directions of reforming the communal heat and power industry. To achieve the aforementioned goal, the available regional registers of licensees-economic entities in the field of heat supply, as well as the resolutions of the National Energy and Utilities Regulatory Commission on the issuance of licenses and/or setting the tariffs for heat energy, are analyzed. The accomplished analysis covers the period from 2014 to the first half of 2023 inclusive. 980 economic entities that carried out economic activity during the analyzed period, among them 844 that operated at the end of this period, are identified. These economic entities have different forms of ownership and different organizational and legal forms of economic management. It is determined that the well-known statement that the municipal heat and power industry has been in a state of crisis is valid only for the communal utilities operating large district heating systems. Such enterprises are characterized by a high level of wear and tear of equipment, unsatisfactory financial condition, and inefficient management of the enterprise. Along with the latter, the private sector enterprises are actively developing in Ukraine. Of the total number of economic entities included in the sample (844), more than half (492) are private enterprises, limited liability companies, or individual entrepreneurs. Such economic entities operate effectively in regional markets without receiving any subsidies from local budgets; many of them have been around for more than 10 years. On the basis of the performed analysis, directions of reforming heat and power enterprises of various forms of ownership, first of all, the State-owned and municipal enterprises, are suggested. It is proposed, when expecting an increase in the level of management of a municipal utility enterprise, in particular, to have all kinds of activities unbundled and to implement the outsourcing of the non-core functions. Prospects for further research on this topic would be the study of the organization of heat supply in certain regions and settlements of Ukraine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes the legal principles of the admissibility of information exchange between enterprises operating on the relevant market; the main characteristics of types of information, forms of exchanges, as well as market structures in the context of compliance with competition legislation are disclosed. On the example of specific cases, the European practice of proving and termination of violations of competition legislation in the form of information exchanges between enterprises, which led to the restriction of economic competition, was analyzed. Based on the results of the research work, proposals were developed for the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine to provide advisory clarifications regarding some issues of the application of Article 6 of the Law of Ukraine "On Protection of Economic Competition" and analytical materials on the qualification of violations of competition law in the form of anti-competitive information exchanges between enterprises operating on the relevant market, based on the consideration of cases in the member states of the European Union. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Strategic directions of Ukraine's development in the context of European integration require a new conceptual basis for the institutionalization of power, the implementation of an innovative model of public administration. Given the democratic approach to transit for Ukraine, in parallel with the European Union, the most in demand is the conservative model of the "New Weberian State", which is necessary for its implementation in Ukraine, because our country has the necessary democratic potential for public initiative. strong state power, able to independently implement the functions of public goal-setting and appropriate organic decision-making, focuses on ensuring the process of modernization of the national public administration system to European standards and practices. The normative and legal conditions that are relevant for the modernization of the current system of public administration in Ukraine have been summarized in the context of the implementation of the principles of public administration. In Ukraine, the modernization of the public administration system, aimed at forming a new model of public administration, is possible in practice for taking into account the objective and subjective key prerequisites that are important for the effective implementation of decentralization regulations. Promising directions of decentralization in Ukraine have been presented: 1) organization of deconcentration of powers and resources, their legally defined transfer from certain central public administration bodies to the necessary local public administration bodies; 2) implementation of the principles of devolution of power; 3) certain powers and resources will be distributed in some way between state public authorities, self-governing organizations and market and public structures; 4) ensuring compliance with the latest models of public administration, formed on the basis of the concept of the New Public Administration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reveals the essential aspects of Jewish social and political life in Galicia and Poland. The research provides a short structure of their labor market in the spheres of industry and economics; it also gives characteristics to the main reasons of the emigration processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article aims at substantiating the theoretical and methodological foundations of research in bank consolidation and assessing its consequences in order to identify the relationship between consolidation and the banking market structure. The main preconditions and priorities of consolidation are systematized and generalized, taking into account the theory of financial integration and synergetic interaction. This approach will contribute to deeper understanding of the motives and trends of consolidation in modern conditions. It is noted that the transnationalization and concentration of capital form the basis for market consolidation, which goes through a certain life cycle, the latter being specified by the authors. It is concluded that the universal, integrated nature of financial business and the formation of financial business ecosystems is becoming more widespread. The main changes in financial mediation are identified. Statistics of banking concentration in Ukraine is given. The dynamics of concentration ratio for the period from January 1, 2000 to August 1, 2020 was analyzed, revealing that the market is moderately concentrated. It is stipulated that the higher the combined share of the five major banks in the banking sector, the less likely a domestic merger and acquisition is. Accordingly, the domestic banking market, compared to European ones, has significant potential. It is concluded that the high values of profitability indicators speak of excess demand over supply in the banking market; thus, competitive intensity under such conditions is minimal, even with the withdrawal of most banks from the market. Thus, competition is only declared. In the future, we should expect increased non-interest rate competition. It is noted that competitive intensity depends on the concentration, dynamics and profitability of the banking market. Competition assessment, carried out using non-structural measures, H-statistics, Boone indicators and Lerner index, showed that, since the an individual bank does not build up its range of activity through consolidation, or by redistributing its market share among participants, but due to the growing demand for banking services, and remote services in particular, competition is actually reduced. The research confirmed that the processes of concentration, consolidation and competition are interconnected, and this connection should be identified to better understand the formation of the banks’ functional strategy and their choice of the business model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article researches the current state and main trends of development of IT industry in Ukraine and the world terms of digital transformation of economy and society as a hole. The rapid dynamic development of the researched industry is proved, the main international rankings are analyzed, which testify the level of development of IT sphere in different countries of the world and in Ukraine in particular. The reasons influencing Ukraine's position in the considered ratings are found out. The state of IT industry of Ukraine as a whole is studied and the main problems that hinder its development are identified. Based on the research made, a number of measures are proposed that should have a positive impact on the development of Ukraine's IT sector and solve existing problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author substantiates a toolkit for ensuring the inclusiveness of the labor market. When considering the set of institutional entities, which, in the course of reconciliation of their own interests on the labor market contribute to its development and institutionalization, she proves that violation of their interaction causes a distortion of the institutional structure of labor market, throws the system out of balance and leads to risks and threats to labor application and the socio-economic sphere as a wholel. Since there are no reference institutions in their pure form, the contradictory combination of functions, norms and logic determines the functioning of hybrids of inclusive and extractive institutions. Thus, the labor market can be considered as a conglomeration of institutions with a set of inclusive and extractive features. The study found that the systemic problems of the labor market are institutional problems, such as imperfections and inconsistencies in the rules for implementing various components of economic policy (monetary, budgetary, tax, debt, employment ones and others). The scenario of riding out the crisis is also based on the introduction of the following institutional measures: adoption of legislative decisions and norms that shape an institutional field for minimizing the extractive features of the institutional structure and the formation of an inclusive labor market. The author substantiates various guidelines for ensuring the inclusiveness of the labor market development in the form of a theoretical construct, which defines the factors of influence, and specifies the tools and mechanisms for introducing innovative methods of state regulation in the field of employment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article is devoted to the problem of political science studying the infrastructure of the modern political market based on structuring this type of market. The contemporary theoretical approaches to the research of the political market we considered, the aspects, which remained beyond the attention of modern researchers, have been singled out. It has been established that most often the political market and its infrastructure are viewed in analogy with economic science, indicating not only the penetration of the discourse of global marketing into the political sector, but rather the development of a marketing paradigm as the dominant consumption in modern society. In the article, it is noted that despite the popularity of the use of the concepts «political market», «infrastructure of the political market» in the political discourse, scientific instruments are not yet fully developed, which legitimizes their application as a theoretical and methodological basis for the development of political science and political marketing. In the article, the infrastructure of the political market we proposed considered as a set of logistical, organizational, and economic conditions that ensure the functioning of the policy sphere and the interaction of political actors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]