Тихонов В.С

The next step to modernization of the housing and communal services branch the author sees in an active application of mechanisms of the state-private partnership, and, not only concerning the attraction of investments, but also in the more active use of the initiative of private management in the systems of municipal infrastructure.

The urgency of research of the theme of cross subsidizing in the branches of economy and intra-firm cross subsidizing is obvious. The authors are convinced, that intra-firm cross subsidizing at the certain leading position of the firm at the market, even without monopoly, usual tactical behavior in activity of such firm. It is a way of survival of the firm at the market. Meanwhile, the authorities conceive struggle against the cross subsidizing, against simultaneous increase in the State expenditure that is more similar to lobbying of interests of the firms, than on reasonable state regulation.