Financial resources as the factor intensity of the investment process in the region

The article is devoted to methodological and practical issues of assessing the financial resources of the region as a factor of intensity of the investment process. The author evaluates the intensity of the investment process depending on two factors: first, the availability of demand and supply for financial resources: second, the nature of demand and supply for financial resources. The method of evaluation of financial resources on the first factor is based on the author’s approach to the allocation of factors of intensity of the investment process and includes the classification of financial sources of investment in five groups. Particular attention is paid to the structure of investments in fixed capital of the region by sources of financing, as well as comparisons in the dynamics of such sources as savings, profits of enterprises, foreign investment. The author’s method of assessing the intensity of the investment process for the second factor is based on the assertion that the long-term nature of the demand for financial resources does not correspond to the short-term nature of their supply...