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In the conditions of rapid growth of service industries and, above all, business services, the importance of advisory services (consulting) is steadily enhancing for the domestic economy and the growth of its competitiveness. The article analyzes the basic processes occurring in the modern Russian market of consulting services, the trends and patterns of its development, including the growing processes of concentration and centralization, the underdevelopment of market institutions, the lack of legislation regulating this market segment, structural defects associated with the excessive income growth of the management consulting. All this allowed us to draw some important conclusions about the unstable and contradictory nature of the development of the domestic market of consulting, the deformation of its structure and the absence of the state policy in the sphere of regulation of the consulting services market, and to develop recommendations for its stabilization, including the improvement of legislation in the field of intellectual property, the expansion and strengthening of the foreign economic positions of the consulting companies in Russia, the efficiency improvement of their participation in the international division of labor. The article is intended for students studying methods of conducting marketing research on the market of consulting services, teachers of the discipline "Marketing in services", "Consulting" as well as for marketing managers and managers of consulting companies elaborating strategies for their development.

The acceleration of the transition of the Russian economy to an innovative way of development largely depends on the innovativeness in the services sector. The efficiency of the services sector and its innovation development cannot be addressed without consideration of the regulatory role of the state and the assessment of this role. However, there is still no comprehensive study of this problem; there is only coverage of some aspects of the problem and fragmented presentation of its individual aspects. The article analyzes the causes for the need of the state influence on the innovation development of services, methods of regulatory impact assessment (RIA) by industry, including the service sector, highlights the stages of the development of the RIA methodology, systematizes theoretical approaches to the regulatory impact assessment by the state. All this allowed the authors to justify a system of principles and directions of research within the logic of RIA, a set of methods and tools for collecting, processing and analyzing data, forming a methodology for the use of RIA, a system of criteria and indicators of the realization of the RIA goals. This article is intended for researchers, teachers and graduate students studying the problems of regulatory impact assessment of a state on innovation, as well as specialists of the state bodies dealing with the problems of improving the regulatory impact assessment of the state.

The relevance of the study on economic aspects of local authorities' functioning is due to their dual nature in the complex system of market relations. In this regard, this article is aimed at economic aspects' revealing of local authorities' functioning, as well as the disclosure of various interest levels' interaction in the system of municipal management. A leading approach in the study of this problem is the method of the effectiveness assessing of local authorities' functioning. The article presents the analysis of domestic researchers' different points of view in relation to the substantial characteristics of municipal economy, reveals the nature of the interaction of various interest levels in the system of municipal relations, discloses the duality of local authorities' position in the municipal system of economic relations, proposes a classification of business entities under the municipal economy, proves the specificity of the economic and moral relations in the system of local authorities. The article is valuable for researchers, teachers and students studying the problems of formation and development of the national municipal economy, research methods within the discipline "Economics of public (government) services", "Municipal economy", as well as specialists of local authorities who are concerned with the improvement and development of municipal economy.

In terms of the actualization of the problem of finding effective factors of the economic growth of the national economy the importance of the production infrastructure services is steadily growing as a criterial condition of the economic growth, which is seen as a dynamic system, entirely dependent on the inward investment, aimed at its modernization. The article analyzes the main components of the production infrastructure, their role and importance in the process of its modernization, describes the reasons for the negative dynamics of its development, the modern classification of the factors of the production infrastructure is considered with a critical point of view, affecting the economic growth of the industrial complex of the region; the new trends and patterns are identified, as well as own vision of the factors promoting and hindering the development of the production infrastructure. All of this made a number of important conclusions, including the need to develop the concept of development of the domestic production infrastructure that would seamlessly fit into the framework of the economic growth national hypothesis, institutional preconditions for its development, the formation and development of the state institutions for regulating and monitoring the production infrastructure, the development of a toolkit for public-private partnerships, the development of special laws regulating the production infrastructure as an economic activity, the implementation of measures of the state support for small forms of enterprises in the production infrastructure sectors not related to the sphere of the natural monopolies. The article is intended for researchers, teachers and students in the service economy, studying the research methods in the fields of the production infrastructure in the framework of the disciplines "Service Economy", "Production infrastructure Services", "Production management" as well as managers of the industrial enterprises, elaborating strategies for their development, and specialists of regional governance, dealing with the problems of development of the industrial sector of the regional economy.