Introduction. Local budgets are the most numerous link of the budget system, the financial base of local authorities, which plays a decisive role in implementing regional policy through financing public expenditures and are the key to the emergence of a capable and efficient local government. However, the unsatisfactory results of the local authorities functioning in previous periods have led to the objective need to reform existing structure of local finances through fiscal decentralization. Purpose.To characterize the essence of financial decentralization from the point of view of its necessity for the economy of territorial and administrative units development and to analyze the success and risks of its implementation in Ukraine. Methods. In the course of writing the article, several methods were used. Among them were the method of analysis and synthesis, scientific comparison, formal logic and dialectics. Results. It has been determined that since the beginning of financial decentralization, the share of local budgets in the consolidated budget of Ukraine has doubled. The local budget revenues has increased in 2.8 times. Facts above indicate increasing in financial resources available to local authorities and, accordingly, more equal distribution of powers and opportunities of local and state authorities. The financial capacity of local budgets is evidenced by the balance of funds on accounts, which at the end of 2017 were amounted to 78.1 billion UAH. As a result, due to the accumulated resources of local budgets, more expenditure responsibilities has been given to local authorities. In addition, since the beginning of 2015, the formation of united territorial communities has begun, of which 699 had been formed by the end of 2017, but only 159 of them are fully operational. However, despite of the results achieved, significant financial, administrative and political factors threaten to continue fiscal decentralization. Conclusion. Despite the successful implementation of financial reform for local budgets, neglecting obvious risks can have a significant impact on the budgetary system of Ukraine. Therefore, the state and local authorities should further strengthen the requirements for the quality of community associations, control over their implementation and more objective planning and analysis of the results achieved, as the shortcomings in the reform will tend to be strengthened and may have a synergistic effect.
As soon as the usage of cryptocurrency in the last few years has been gaining popularity all over the world, and this global trend has affected Ukraine, the purpose of the paper is to examine the essence of cryptocurrency, to identify the issues of its legal regulation in Ukraine, as well as using the analysis of world experience in this sphere, to identify ways of the improvement for relevant domestic legislation. The authors have indicated that the cryptocurrency market (or "virtual" money) operates successfully and provides an opportunity to analyse dynamics of the cost, supply, and demand of about 90-100 different cryptocurrency. Problem's setting. The authors of the paper have emphasized that despite increasing popularity of cryptocurrency in Ukraine and throughout the world, there is no single clear definition of this concept. Therefore, the authors of this article state that cryptocurrency is a digital decentralized currency, a unit of which is a coin cryptographically protected against tampering since it is encrypted information that cannot be copied, while all information about transactions is stored in the blockchain system. Methodology. The study primarily uses comparative methods for the purposes of examination of the approaches taken under different jurisdictions towards cryptocurrency. Additionally, analysis of the body of theoretical literature on the matter was conducted. Results of the study allowed drawing several conclusions on the prospects of further development of the legal framework for cryptocurrencies in Ukraine since nowadays the country is neutral in the issue of using and regulating cryptocurrency and consequently it is losing precious time, because: first, potentially loses money, which could enter the state budget from individuals, who receive income from transactions on cryptocurrency markets; and secondly, the state runs a risk of citizens' rights violation because of no real instruments for their protection. Practical implications of these are proposals to adopt certain amendments to the current legislation in this sphere, including setting up control over brokerage of cryptocurrency, licensing of the industry, and legal definition of the cryptocurrency for the purposes of taxation, etc. Value/originality. The paper represents one of the first comprehensive studies of the current state and prospects of development of the legal framework for the cryptocurrency in Ukraine. Its conclusions provide both proposals for the development of legislation in this sphere and may serve as a basis for the future studies of this topic.
This article generalizes arguments and counter-arguments within the scientific discussion regarding the determination of the optimal decentralization level, which will provide the country’s innovative development, since the key task of decentralization has to be not only to expand the income and expenditure powers of the subnational formations but also to understand the final goal of this process – qualitative transformation of the country’s economic system towards improving its innovativeness and competitiveness. Thus, the decentralization reform has to be the driver of the innovative economic development, which is the expected result of the managerial decision-making freedom increase at the local level, the subnational formations’ financial self-sufficiency increase and more effective spending policy (expansion of the innovative projects financing amounts that will promote the sustainable economic growth). Systematization of the scientific works on the above problems proves that there is no one idea regarding the decentralization impact on the country’s economic and innovative development among scientists. That is why it is urgent to continue the empirical searching in this area, that will enable to take into account the dual nature of consequences regarding the activation of the decentralization processes. The empirical study is carried out through using of the non-linear analysis form of dependence (GLM regression, which enables to identify the linear and nonlinear character of the relationship between variables) based on the panel data, formed for set of 23 states-OECD members (Austria, Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Great Britain and the USA) during 2002-2015. The expenditure decentralization index, calculated as the ratio between the consolidated expenses amount at the subnational level and state consolidated expenses, expressed in parts of the whole, is chosen as the factorial variable model. The final variable (traditional for the economic growth models) is GDP per capita (dollars the USA). Besides, the set of control variables is added to this regression model (which explain the regularities of the resultative feature change and have a strong relationship with it). The control variables are selected on the basis of correlation analysis. The practical implementation of all stages in this research is performed using the software product Stata 12/SE. The results of the study confirm the non-linear character of dependence (the inverse U-shape) regarding the GDP change per capita on the expenditure decentralization level change, and also the maximum extremum of the function in the point with expenditure decentralization level 1.35. It means that excessive expenses load (above the specified norm) on the local budgets will be accompanied by inhibition of the innovative and economic dynamics, that should be taken into account by the relevant authorized executive bodies in investigation of the concrete measures regarding intergovernmental relationships reforming in direction of their decentralization, and in the formation of the well-balanced economic and innovative policies.
Dec 28, 2017·Вісник Житомирського державного технологічного університету. Серія: Економічні науки // THE JOURNAL OF ZHYTOMYR STATE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY. SERIES: ECONOMICS
Олександр Михайлович Петрук, Оксана Сергіївна Новак
The research deals with the issue of reflection in accounting cryptocurrencies and the ways of solving it through determining the economic essence of such currencies. The purpose of the research is the analysis such economic phenomenon as cryptocurrency and formation of appropriate methodological approaches to its accounting reflection, that requires the identification of the object, the study of the methods of its assessment, the clarification of reflection on the appropriate accounts, the determination of place in reporting.The author generalizes the existed achievements of domestic and foreign researchers about the issues of accounting cryptocurrencies, differentiates between the concept of «cryptocurrency» and «electronic money», and proves that according to a set of features cryptocurrencies do not meet the requirements of the definition of «money», that is why, cryptocurrencies cannot be reflected into the enterprise balance sheet under article «Funds and their equivalents».Using the functional approach to the definition of cryptocurrency as the accounting object and the methods of comparison and analogy, the paper substantiates the order of its reflection as a variety of financial investments applying the special methods of accounting, such as assessment, accounts, and reporting.
<em>In the article considered the implementation problem an effective organizational and economic mechanism (algorithm) and ensuring the safety of the process of decentralization of management of natural resources is considered as an organized transfer of powers from the sphere of state management to water, land, forest and mineral resources to territorial communities.</em> <em>The concept of the mechanism of ensuring the security of the decentralization process in the system of management of natural resources with the participation of local communities is proposed.</em>
Natalia G. Vovchenko, А. В. Андреева, A.S. Orobinskiy, Y.M. Filippov
Modern economy is developing in a process able format, gradually turning into a virtual economic system. Digital economy serves as the new paradigm of economic development and reformats business relationship on the basis of the use of information.New information and network technologies are becoming major factors of globalizing economy production and contribute to rapid transition of economic agents from real sector to a network one, ensuring digital economy development and innovative business processes formation.The blockchain technology implements competitive advantages of financial contracts based on reduction of the costs on economic agents' interaction, provision of information transparency and effective control over operational risks. The blockchain technology contributes to financial security of the modernization operations of business processes and high organized centralized structures of the blockchain technology.The blockchain application for financial transactions allows providing high quality of the contracts implementation between the digital economy's economic agents.
With the rise of the modern technologies and wide implementation of digital systems, establishment of cashless economy is perspective trend in Ukraine. In contrast to the traditional kinds of money, which can be considered as a payment facility in online deals too, smart currencies have advanced level of security from cybercrime. These factors induce new “e-money” epoch and “cryptocurrency” term is extensively discussed. The aim of the article is to justify the perspectives of using cryptocurrencies for payment operations guided by historic aspect of research. The study is based on the use of historic and analysis and synthesis methods of research. The principles of cryptocurrency functioning and the essence of “blockchain” technology are analyzed. Formed the potential possibilities of blockchain bank integration. Previous conditions of origin and main stages of cryptocurrency development are determined. The essence of digital currency is revealed and Its main kinds are described. The history of development and functioning of cryptocurrency is divided into seven periods. Its proved, that cryptocurrency is not a full-fledged money but highly liquid asset, which perspectives on a worlds capital market are undeniable.
The article addresses some aspects of finance, a sufficiently complicated economic category that is insufficiently developed in modern scientific literature. According to the author, the holistic view of the finance is closely related to the study of genetic and functional aspects of finance, their interdependence and interaction. The author made an attempt to look on the finance from the genetic point of view. The finance as an economic category is considered from different perspectives: as the object and subject of utilization (consumption), in terms of its nature, its role as a subject in social reproduction, as well as its functionality. As a synthetic economic category, the finance is connected with definite steps of the reproduction process at all levels of the economy, represents a complex of economic relations in terms of formation, distribution, re-distribution and use of centralized and decentralized funds as well as non-fund forms of accumulation in the process of establishment, distribution, re-distribution and use of the gross domestic product and the national income of the state.
The article presents the results of a study of a business-engineering project for a commercial bank. The technique of the international standard of business analysis practice BABOK GUIDE v3 (SWOT-Analysis) is used to identify internal and external factors that affect the organization. The commercial bank «Home Credit» was chosen as the object of the study. The aim of the research is to achieve the leading position of a commercial bank among the world's credit institutions by developing a program for the transformation of the enterprise architecture segment. Business process «Lending« was subject to reengineering and reoriented to increase the share of solvent customers through the implementation of the Masterchain platform in the organization's activities. The potential results from the introduction of the «Blockchain» into the business process «Lending» are defined.
The article focuses on the advantages of distributed ledger technology in view to apply it within existing financial system. The article is highly relevant as the technology is a perfect opportunity to develop the financial system in terms of reducing costs and improving efficiency. The authors suggest a few brief definitions of such terms as distributed ledger, block-chain, bitcoin and mining. The article points out and describes special features of distributed ledger technology. Based on the definitions, the article outlines operation principles of the distributed ledger, block-chain, bitcoin and mining. Also, it compares cash against cryptocurrency - bitcoin. The article examines the possibilities of using distributed ledger technology in clearing, payment and settlement processes including ways of money transfer, payments for goods, securities and derivative financial instruments. Also, the article provides statistical data on the use of cryptocurrencies considering the cases of their capitalization, price, money supply and numbers of transactions submitted within 24 hours, 7 and 30 days. The article emphasizes the increase in volume of such transactions in the US, China, Ukraine and at the same time points to the decline in this type of transactions in Russia. In addition to statistical data, the article provides information on the types of distributed ledger systems along with comparison between different types of systems. The article describes processes of transferring money, as well as transactions with goods, securities and derivative financial instruments in modern infrastructure environment. For illustrative purposes, the authors outline how the process would proceed if distributed registry technology was implemented. The authors conclude that advantages of distributed ledger technology overweight its shortages if one takes into account operational, technical, financial and legal aspects. Application of distributed ledger technology would increase efficiency of payments, clearing and settlement, and in the long term, distributed ledger technology could eliminate most shortages of the system existing nowadays on the financial market.
Radical transformation processes in the economy, administrative reform and modernization of the public relations system entail the need for building adequate regulatory mechanisms to eliminate influences of negative factors, stabilize and sustain the development dynamics in the conditions of limited resources. The prolonged prevalence of situational analysis for purposes of administrative decisions making on budget-related issues prevented from effective setting and implementation of strategic objectives, which, once coordinated, would enhance the effectiveness of reforms in the budget system in the whole and the mechanism for interbudget relations in particular. Their high effectiveness is a key and complicated objective of public finance administration in a country. Solutions of problems related with stabilization of economic dynamics, overcoming of consequences of financial and economic crisis require advanced theoretical approaches to enhancing the effectiveness of inter-budget relations as an important component of budget control. The amendments to the budget legislation, adopted in 2014-2015, are supposed to provide for anew model for financing of local budgets and inter-budget relations and the guidelines for reforms of budget and taxation decentralization. The practice of budget control in 2015 shows that the current legal system for control of inter-budget relations had many unsettled issues which calls for its further improvement. Further implementation of the reform of budget decentralization and enhancement of inter-budget relations effectiveness requires extension of rights of local governance bodies, enlargement of their budget autonomy and clearly specified responsibilities.
The aim of the article is to identify the structural features of the local finance system as an aggregate of socio-economic relations under conditions of decentralization. The features of formation and development of the local finance system are analyzed. It is noted that the main place in the system belongs to local budgets as an important tool for the development of the socio-economic sphere. The importance of local finance in the formation of financial resources of local authorities under conditions of decentralization is studied. The shortcomings of the national budgetary policy at the local level are revealed. It is substantiated that the budgetary policy at the local level should be aimed at achieving an optimal balance between its economic and social aspects. Recommendations for improving the regulatory framework for the development of the finance system of the local self-government in Ukraine under conditions of decentralization are proposed. The need for providing access of the public to information and to participation in solving these issues is grounded.
The article is aimed at studying the history of origins, the preconditions for development, the main problems of functioning, and the prospects of legalizing the cryptocurrency market in Ukraine. One of the key risks when implementing advances of the IT in the financial sphere is the possibility of physical disappearance of banking system in its classical form because of its inability to compete with new technologies. The most troubling, versus the classical banks, may be considered such new technologies as credit electronic platforms and blockchain. In the recent time the bitcoin course has been growing rapidly, giving all the reasons to consider it primarily a classical «pyramid scheme». The cryptocurrency market may also be characterized a «pyramid scheme» because of the fact that the course of such a currency has not any coverage except increase in the number of participants and investors. Ukraine is not a leader in the international cryptocurrency market, albeit not an outsider. In order to secure a reliable State control of the «gray» cryptocurrency market, which is actually present in Ukraine, the article suggests some necessary actions directed towards legalizing and ordering this phenomenon.
Viktor Dmytrovych Chernadchuk, Viktor Sukhonos, Inna Shkolnyk
The financial system of the advanced countries develops according to two basic models – a bank-based system and a market-based system, depending on the level of protection of the rights of owners, investors and lenders. A paradigm shift in functioning of global financial system and financial systems of all countries is based on financial law, which formalizes all financial relations. Reviewing the financial system of Ukraine, the researchers pay a special attention to public finance due to its substantial share in redistribution of Ukraine’s GDP. A comparative analysis of the concept “financial system” makes it possible to draw a certain analogy with the approaches of experts in financial law. From the economic point of view, a country’s financial system includes three key areas – state finance, household finance and corporate finance, which are closely interrelated. Matching these three spheres with the legal approach, state finance is defined as public finance, while household finance and corporate finance are referred as private finance. The financial market functions as a part of the financial system. In economic terms, the financial system is a dynamic and open environment, while it implies an intense movement of financial resources, a rapid emergence of new financial instruments and integration into the global financial market. From the legal point of view, the financial system is a static financial and legal phenomenon, which includes centralized and decentralized public funds, as well as funds of business entities and individuals.
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UDC 336.74
 
 Vasylenko Artur, post-graduate student. Mariupol State University. Cryptocurrency Phenomenon in the International Monetary System. The main prerequisites of cryptocurrency emergence in the international monetary system in terms of regionalization of the world economy are defined in the article. Determination of «cryptocurrency» category was analysed from the point of two main approaches to its treatment: on the one hand cryptocurrency is admitted to be the currency equally to the sovereign currency, and on the other hand it is considered as an unrecognized virtual asset.
 The main consequences which arise in case of widespread use of crypto currency for the country and for the parties that agreed to use cryptocurrency were analysed and systematized.
 On the basis of the research, given the current trends in the world economy, the author put forward and substantiated the hypothesis to classify the phenomenon of cryptocurrency as the effects of a famous philosophical «Negation of negation law» formulated by G. Hegel at the beginning of the XIX century.
 
 Keywords: cryptocurrency, material money, electronic money, digital currency, regional currency integration, blockchain, mining, capitalization, «Negation of negation law».
The article analyses the directions of tax management in the context of budgetary decentralization. The paper aims to research tax management in the system of forming local budgets in the conditions of financial resources decentralization and analyze the current tools of tax management on the local level. In spite of a great number of researches, the issue of tax management in strengthening financial independence of local budgets is not enough studied; therefore, to reach financial independence of local communities it is necessary to adopt new normative and legal acts concerning decentralization of financial resources taking into account tax potential of each territorial community. The lack of financial resources causes the problem of optimal redistribution of power among central and local authorities. The author proposes the new mechanisms of solving the current problems on the example of local budget of the city of Uzgorod to contribute budgetary decentralization. The principal idea while conducting the reform of the budgetary process must be the adoption of certain changes in budgetary legislation which have to shift the mechanisms of budgetary financing and equating local budgets. The author concludes that the progressive vector of well-being increasing completely depends on the developed concept of regional economic policy. The article pays attention to the importance of taking into account the tax potential of a territory and characterizes the directions of strengthening financial independence of local government.
Mar 28, 2017·Вісник Житомирського державного технологічного університету. Серія: Економічні науки // THE JOURNAL OF ZHYTOMYR STATE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY. SERIES: ECONOMICS
The article analyses the directions of tax management in the context of budgetary decentralization. The paper aims to research tax management in the system of forming local budgets in the conditions of financial resources decentralization and analyze the current tools of tax management on the local level. In spite of a great number of researches, the issue of tax management in strengthening financial independence of local budgets is not enough studied; therefore, to reach financial independence of local communities it is necessary to adopt new normative and legal acts concerning decentralization of financial resources taking into account tax potential of each territorial community. The lack of financial resources causes the problem of optimal redistribution of power among central and local authorities. The author proposes the new mechanisms of solving the current problems on the example of local budget of the city of Uzgorod to contribute budgetary decentralization. The principal idea while conducting the reform of the budgetary process must be the adoption of certain changes in budgetary legislation which have to shift the mechanisms of budgetary financing and equating local budgets. The author concludes that the progressive vector of well-being increasing completely depends on the developed concept of regional economic policy. The article pays attention to the importance of taking into account the tax potential of a territory and characterizes the directions of strengthening financial independence of local government.
The main focus of this article is the analysis of the global cryptocurrency market as an integrated system of cryptocurrencies and infrastructures that ensure their functioning. In particular, the general state of the cryptocurrency market and its current trends have been considered. The main part of the analysis was conducted on the structure of the global cryptocurrency market and its main components. Based on the indicator of cryptocurrency market capitalization, leading cryptocurrencies have been defined. They currently represent 80% of the world cryptocurrency market. These include Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, Bitcoin Cash, Cardano, Litecoin and NEM. Key players in the cryptocurrency market infrastructure have been also determined, they support and contribute to the development of the market of almost every cryptocurrency. These include miners, full nodes, exchanges, wallets and payment companies. The main market indicators for each leading cryptocurrencies such as: the market share and its change over the year, the degree of influence of the cryptocurrency on the state of the global market, the dynamics of prices and their volatility have been analyzed. The infrastructure of the market of each cryptocurrency has been estimated on the basis of indicators of the reliability of the infrastructure and its trade opportunities. The study showed a high growth rate of Bitcoin and along with it a number of significant altcoins over the past year, which had a favorable effect on the state of the common cryptocurrency market. Almost every cryptocurrency showed positive trends. Ripple is the absolute record holder of price growth over the past year, followed by NEM. Bitcoin and Ethereum are the least financially risky ones in terms of volatility. In addition, Ethereum has the most reliable infrastructure, and Bitcoin has the most secured by exchanges and wallets. Cardano showed the highest growth rates in a short period of time. In general, these phenomena are positive forerunners for the cryptocurrency industry.
The article deals with contemporary tendencies of the banking policy of the world. For this purpose, the key issues have been worked out: analysis of the evolution of formation, specification of the essence and main characteristics of the blockchain technology, profiling of the mechanism of the work of the block chain technology, disclosure of the main purpose and the features of the use of smart contracts in the block chain environment, formulation of the advantages and disadvantages that arise in the process of working with smart contracts, analysis of perspective directions of application of smart contracts in the banking system. The study underlines that under current conditions of broad consumption, crypto-currency payments found general application. Such payments are relatively simple: there are wallets, you can transfer money from one wallet to another or several at once. The network is built on principles that allow you to do it without a single center, but the tasks are carried out in a traditional way. Thus, it is an ordinary payment system consisting of people, money and money transfer. Under the influence of the continuous development of technologies, a payment network that allows you to write programs that not only worked with wallets was created, but they themselves would take money out of wallets and decide who and how much to send. Important conditions for smart contracts are transparency, security and universality for all users.
The approach to understanding electronic money and their types on the basis of cryptographic technologies and data encryption protocols is disclosed in the article. Electronic money is becoming more popular among Internet users, as payment transactions and additional revenues. This determines the formation of new economic categories and characteristics, which gradually enter the system of modern development of society. Among them we can point out crypto technology, cryptosystems, and crypto economy, trade and money relations. They are based on bitcoin and alternative crypto assets. Modern approaches to understanding crypto currencies and their classification features are analysed. Characteristics that show the advantages over fiat money are given. The directions for the development of the crypto currency market and its surrogates are outlined.
Introduction. At the present stage, Ukraine is steadfastly concentrating its efforts on fulfilling its international legal obligations, including on issues of development of local and regional democracy. An important role in these processes is played by the reform of local self-government and territorial organization of power in accordance with the basic provisions of the European Charter of Local Self-Government, which has become an integral part of the national legislation in this area. Purpose. The purpose of the study is to analyze the actual revenues of local budget revenues of the Ternopil region as a whole and the combined territorial communities and the city of Ternopil in particular. In addition, the task of analyzing the dynamics of individual sources of local budget revenues and determining the possible problems of budget formation in 2017 is set. Results. Summarizing the study, it should be noted that as a result of the decentralization reform, the system of financing has been changed in the country, and tools have been created that allow local authorities to effectively address and prevent problems on the ground. Conclusion. The further introduction of a decentralization policy should become an effective factor in stabilizing the socio-economic situation, overcoming the financial crisis, overcoming the contradictions between different levels of government, organizing relations between the center, regions and territorial communities on the basis of the division of responsibilities and competences, as well as partnerships in the area of providing citizens Ukraine with state and local benefits, and to increase the efficiency of using budget funds at all levels of government.
Introduction. Nowadays there are no active governmental instruments to finance the activities associated with social and professional adaptation of former military servicemen. The implementation of such programs is mainly carried out at the expense of limited foreign assistance. Insufficient elaboration of theoretical fundamentals and practical aspects of financial supply to sustain the mentioned adaptation in Ukraine predominantly explain it. Objectives. One has to identify the semantic differences in scientific approaches to determination of essence of social and professional adaptation of transferred to reserve servicemen, suggest authentic definition of this notion from the viewpoint of its financial supply, systemize, generalize and deepen the theoretical & conceptual fundamentals of financing the mentionedabove events and programs of adaptation. Results. The author critically analyzed the number of definitions of social and professional adaptation of transferred to reserve servicemen and specified the structure of mentioned adaptation due to its main components. The updated definition of social and professional adaptation of transferred to reserve servicemen as an object of financing was determined. On the basis of generalized global and national experience there was developed a typology of financial sources for social and professional adaptation of former servicemen according to three criteria: level of formation, location and financing model. The author conditionally grouped four types of models of its financing due to available financial sources: centralized (budget), decentralizedendogenous, decentralized-exogenous and integrative (mixed). The author has also substantiated the fact that decentralized-exogenous model of financing of social and professional adaptation of former servicemen prevailed lately in Ukraine and identified its peculiarities and disadvantages. Conclusion. The suggested typology of financial sources for social and professional adaptation of transferred to reserve servicemen facilitates selection of optimal financial sources and models taking into account the national specificity. Under modern domestic conditions of social and economic development it is recommended to apply the integrative (mixed) model of financing that is based on the principle of social partnership and assumes the participation of all economic sectors in financing of program events of social and professional adaptation of transferred to reserve servicemen: municipal, business and non-governmental (public) ones