Since most official estimates of major macroeconomic variables that market participants and policy makers keenly monitor in real time come out with significant publication lags, nowcasting literature especially targeted on key macro variables has trended over the recent years. Nowcasting refers...

The Producer Price Index (PPI) for the United States suggests that semiconductor prices have barely been falling in recent years, a dramatic contrast to the rapid declines reported from the mid-1980s to the early 2000s. This slowdown in the rate of decline is puzzling in light of evidence that...

By the end of 2015, according to business surveys conducted by the Gaidar Institute, the Russian industry still will be unable to post statistically indisputable output growth. Weak demand, which can not be revived neither by the producers' price reduction nor by ruble devaluation and import...

According to the Gaidar Institute's business survey data1, the September performance score proved pessimistic rather than otherwise. The dynamics of demand and output underwent no fundamental change which discouraged enterprises and resulted in a lower satisfaction with demand and an increase in...

First September data obtained from the Gaidar Institute business surveys has demonstrated high adjustment of Russian industry to 2015 recession pattern. Sluggish negative demand dynamic suits the majority of enterprises and allows them to steadily control finished products' stocks. Output growth...

According to the data of business surveys of the Gaidar Institute, in April the Russian industry escaped again the crisis slump both of demand and output with consistent control over stocks of finished products, further slowdown of growth in prices and radical positive revision of its sales and...

According to business surveys carried out by the Gaidar Institute, in Q1 2015 the Russian industry managed to escape the crisis output gap despite a slow recovery of demand after January holidays. The latter factor does not suit a growing number of enterprises which judging by the estimates of...

According to business surveys carried out by the Gaidar Institute, in February recovery of growth failed to attain the normal extent which situation resulted in surplus of stocks of finished products in conditions where the dynamics of output was ahead of demand. It is to be noted that forecasts...