METHODOLOGICAL MODELING ASPECTS OF FOREIGN-ECONOMIC ACTIVITY IN THE REGIONS OF THE NORTH-WEST FEDERAL DISTRICT AND THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS

The article is devoted to the urgent researching problems of integration and modeling of foreign-economic activity in the little-studied aspect of the relation system “country – region of another country”. It considers the developmental trends of trade and economic integration between the regions of the North-West Federal District and the Republic of Belarus. The article describes a mathematical apparatus of gravitational modeling of foreign-economic interaction that is tested on the base of statistical accountability of the regions of the North-West Federal District and the Republic of Belarus

Keywords

trade and economic integration, foreign-economic activity of the regions, goods turnover, economic and mathematical modeling