REGIONAL PUBLIC GOODS SECTOR : THE INSTITUTIONAL DIMENSION

Abstract

The coefficients of budget subsidizing for the housing and utilities and coefficients of compensation by the population for the costs of housing and utilities services are evaluated based on official statistics of the Russian Federation constituent entities for 1997–2009. It is shown that the level of budget subsidizing for housing and utilities by consolidated budgets of the RF territorial subjects varied across the country in the range of 0,9 – 0,49. At the same time, the level of compensation for the costs of housing and utilities services from consumer household budgets over the observed period steadily increased twofold – from 0,33 to 0,66. It is shown that government supervision is necessary for housing and utilities, as the regional public goods sector, in various institutional forms in order to control prices of locally-monopolized structures-producers

Keywords

• Public goods
• housing and utilities services
• consumer prices
• tariffs
• consolidated budgets of RF territorial subjects
• consumer household budgets