Business surveys of industrial enterprises have been conducted by the Gaidar Institute using a European harmonized method in monthly cycles since September 1992, covering the entire territory of the Russian Federation. The panel size is around 1,000 enterprises employing over 13% of industrial...

An examination of Swedish manufacturing data on real output and qualitative business tendency survey (BTS) responses from 1968 through 1998 reveals that survey-based attitude data typically improve the fit of simple autoprojective models of manufacturing output growth. It also turns out that...

This paper was prepared using data of monthly business surveys conducted by the Gaidar Institutefor Economic Policy (IEP) among managers of industrial enterprises since September 1992. The surveys are based on the European harmonized methodology and encompass the entire territory of the Russian...

This paper was prepared using data of monthly business surveys conducted by the Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy (IEP) among managers of industrial enterprises since September 1992. The surveys are based on the European harmonized methodology and encompass the entire territory of the Russian...

This paper was prepared using data of monthly business surveys conducted by the Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy (IEP) among managers of industrial enterprises. The surveys are based on the European harmonized methodology and encompass the entire territory of the Russian Federation. The size...

Agglomerative effects in the Russian manufacturing industry are significant and higher on average than in West European countries. Also, there is a marked “agglomeration shadow effect”, that is, firms' productivity tends to grow in the vicinity of large cities and to decline with distance...

Gaidar Institute's business surveys show that the Russian industrial sector started recovering in early 2017 from the protracted crisis of 2015–2016. Some indicators increased, including actual and predicted changes in demand, stock (finished products), investment plans

The monitoring of a representative set of indicators of business surveys carried out by the Gaidar Institute permits to identify the specifics of the 2015–2016 crisis in Russian industry. Firstly, within the two crisis years the dynamics of the main indicators (demand, output and prices) were...

February data on Russian industry demonstrates upward dynamics of the majority of actual indexes and preparedness of businesses to come out of a recession. Demand, output, stocks of finished products, and investment plans – all these indexes seem unexpectedly positive for the outsiders