THE STUDY OF THE EFFICIENT DEVELOPMENT OF IT COMPANIES IN REGIONS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
The theoretical basis for the application of methods of building efficiency boundaries in the study of IT companies’ development at the regional level. The initial point was to consider the region as a complex system with a set of input and output parameters. At the same time, the sto-chastic frontier model includes components that reflect the impact of random factors and the in-efficiency of IT companies in the region. The integrated algorithm for the implementation of sto-chastic frontier analysis is developed to assess the efficiency of IT companies’ development in regions of the Russian Federation. The main drawback of the model is the need for a clear speci-fication of the functional form of the efficiency boundary and the law for distribution non-efficiency. In this case, the disadvantage is eliminated by using flexible functional forms and dis-tribution laws. The Cobb- Douglas function was chosen because it is characterized by a small number of parameters and the possibility of linearization by logarithmization in the functional form of the frontier. The stochastic frontier model of IT companies’ development in regions of the Russian Federation is constructed, the quantitative value of the coefficient of technical effi-ciency is obtained. The groups of regions with low, below average, medium, above average and with a high level of IT companies’ development were identified on the basis of the equal statisti-cal group.
Keywords: IT companies, methods for constructing the efficiency frontier, stochastic fron-tier analysis, functional form of the production frontier, production of unidentified factors, fron-tier model, coefficient of technical efficiency, equally internal statistical grouping.
Highlights:
on the basis of Cobb - Douglas function the stochastic frontier model of IT companies’ de-velopment in regions of the Russian Federation is constructed;
the quantitative values of the coefficients of technical efficiency of IT companies’ develop-ment in regions of the Russian Federation are obtained;
the problem of differentiation of regions of the Russian Federation by the level of IT com-panies’ development is revealed.
Stanislav V. Kazarin, Candidate of Economics, head of the Department of Information Systems and Technologies, Samara State medical University; Natalia Yu. Svechnikova, Candidate of Eco-nomics, Associate Professor, Samara State University of Economics.