This book gathers selected papers presented at the International Scientific Conference "Economics in the Changing World," held on June 26-27, 2018 at the Institute of Management, Economics and Finance of Kazan Federal University (Kazan, Russia). The conference featured contributions by leading specialists in the field of management, territorial development, and state, regional and municipal management, covering the modern trends in the development of economic complexes and firms, economics of innovative processes, social policy, financial analysis, and mathematical methods in economic research. The book highlights new approaches for the development of various sectors of the Russian economy and individual markets, as well as for the efficiency of entrepreneurship in general. It also analyzes the concept, meaning and directions of the socio-economic development of the regional subjects in the Russian Federation. The scientific studies included make a significant contribution to the development of entrepreneurship, regional management, rationalization and optimization of resource use, state territorial administration, and sustainable economic growth in the regions and the transport infrastructure.

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Safiullin Lenar Nailevich is a Doctor of Economics, Professor, and the Scientific Deputy Director and Head of the Department of Financial Markets and Financial Institutes at Kazan Federal University's Institute of Management, Economics and Finance. His main research areas are the growth of public welfare in heterogeneous markets; consumer behavior and demand in knowledge-based economies, including problems of information asymmetry; entrepreneurship; and competitiveness, competitive advantages and quality in labor and product markets. Safiullin has published over 100 scientific papers, including 60 papers in international journals included in the Scopus database.

**Niyaz Gabdrakhmanov **is currently a Research Fellow at the Institute of Education, Higher School of Economics, Russia, and was previously an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Management, Economics and Finance, Kazan Federal University, Russia. His main areas of scientific interest are spatial analysis, geodemography, regional higher education systems, economic and social geography, spatial modeling, geographic information systems, and cartography. Gabdrakhmanov has published over 100 scientific papers.

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Part I    Regional Economic Development

  Regional and country aspects of compensating for environmental damage

   Modeling of transport and logistical processes at the local level: The case of Tatarstan

    Management of Investment Attractiveness of the Russian Federation Regions: Practical Analysis

    Infrastructure Projects and Transport Systems Financing in Russia

    The influence of the Russian Economic Crisis on the Regional Peculiarities of Investment Activity      The mechanism of integrating innovations into the technological process in the construction sector

     Tax Capacity of the Russian Federation Constituent Entities: Problems of Assessment and Unequal Distribution

     Key Indicators of Regional Banks Activities: from Theory to Practice

      Development of Agroindustrial Companies: The Stakeholder Approach

      Theoretical Aspects of the Optimization of the Regional Innovative Enterprises

       Institutions in the context of the Regional Development of Russia

Part II Problems of contemporary regional policy

       The Formation of the Single Stock Market by Russia and Kazakhstan in the Conditions of Development of the Eurasian Economic Union

       Financial Engineering Tools for Stress Testing in Banks

       Public-Private Partnership as a Part of High Technologies of Modern Russia

       Food Stamps as a Method of the Parallel Government Support

       Efficiency Factors of the Innovative Activity in High-Tech Industries

       Establishing the Innovative Economic System of Russia through Gaining Foreign Experience

       Inter-Budgetary Transfers from the Standpoint of Russian Federalism        Leasing as a Tool for Financing of Innovative Projects

Part III Structural Changes in the Regional Economy         The Effectiveness of the Regional Health Care System: the Evidence from the Republic of Tatarstan (Russia)

        A transition to the Innovative Model of the Oil and Gas Industry Development as an Integral Part of Environmental Safety

        World Manufacturing Industries in the Post-Industrial Society: Tendencies and Regional Shifts

        Mathematical and Cartographical Modeling and the Demographic Analysis of Rural Settlements

        Development of the Project Management Mechanism Based on Renewable Energy Sources for the Northern regions of Russia Conclusions