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...

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...

The data of the Gaidar Institute's surveys of industrial enterprises received in February presented a controversial pattern of the state of things in the industry: explicit growth in sales and output along with high redundancy of stocks of fi nished goods and a definite drop in optimism of...

According to the data of surveys of the Gaidar Institute, in January in industry the sharp but traditional growth in optimism of forecasts of demand, output and employment was combined with growth in excessive stocks of finished products, careful pricing policy and growing inhibitive effect of...

An in-depth analysis of the December data from the surveys of the Gaidar Institute1 showed that the end of 2012 was unfavorable to the industry. With continued weakening of demand in industrial products enterprises had to review evaluations of it, switch over to explicit reduction of output and...

According to the data of surveys carried out by the Gaidar Institute10, the situation of enterprises changed sooner for the worse, rather than improved. The demand kept falling and its forecasts suggested no optimism. In such conditions, even the existing stagnation of production results in the...

A detailed analysis of the October data of the surveys carried out by the Gaidar Institute1 showed that the main indices of the demand, output and prices in industry started to slow down again. Employment rate is falling too because due to low wages and salaries workers quit their jobs and there...

According to the surveys of the Gaidar Institute, in August the situation in Russian industry sooner improved than got worse. Slowdown of a drop in the demand permitted enterprises to avoid cuts in output, introduce positive adjustments in production plans and reduce the rate at which workers...