This publication presents analysis of handling regular business surveys of Russian industrial enterprises, information capacity of such surveys and analytical findings. Analysis summarizes 18 years experience of IEP’s surveys: from the choice of envelopes for sending questionnaires to obtained...

This paper is a continuation of the research «Competition in the Russian Industry (1995–2002)», exercised and published by Gaidar Institute in 2003. Monitoring, based on the business surveys’ fi ndings enabled to trace the development of competition during the pre crisis period of rapid...