THE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT LEVELS IN THE REGIONS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AND COUNTRIES WITH THE ADVANCED MARKET ECONOMY
The article illustrates the small business development and formation in Russian regions and United States of America. There is a brief review of methods based on construction efficiency border. The stochastic frontier model is formed by means of the translogarithmic function and statistical indicators for 1997-2006, showing the small business development levels in the regions of Russian Federation and United States of America. The program Frontier Analysis is created for the estimation of the small business development efficiency and carrying out of the comparative analysis. As a result, the regions - leaders and outsiders on the small business development level are revealed