This study investigates usefulness of business tendency surveys in industrial sector for out-of-sample prediction of growth of industrial production in Russia. A special attention is paid to performance of survey-augmented models during the recent Great Recession 2008/2009. Using the real-time...

Results of an empirical research on the volume and forms of retraining at Russian enterprises are presented in the paper. The study is based on the survey of about a thousand of managers of industrial enterprises carried out by IET. The analysis demonstrates that the majority of industrial...