Structural and institutional changes in the coal industry
The article describes theoretical and methodological foundations of the study of transformation processes in the Ukrainian economy, analyzes the processes of development and transformation of the institutions of a modern economy, changes in the economic transformation of coal mines, functions of the state regulation of coal mining enterprises, offers the recommendations on the modernization of the economy in the context of institutional changes. The institutional nature of the transformation of the model of rent-seeking behavior and the innovative behavior of coal mines were examined, and the attempts were made to search for the sources of modernization of industrial economy. The focus is made on the economic relations associated with the transformation of coal enterprises in the process of developing the institutions of the modern economy.