The business opinion surveys carried out by the Gaidar Institute in March 2013 pointed to a worsening situation for Russian industrial enterprises. As a result, industrial enterprises began to lose confidence in the correctness of their production and marketing policies, and so were trying to...

There are hopes for industrial recovery from stagnation in Russia, according to analysis of the results of a survey that was carried out by the Gaidar Institute in October 2016. A positive shift in real sales dynamics coupled with slowly upgraded forecasts for the same is supplemented by a...

According to business surveys conducted by Gaidar Institute, domestic industry in a more definite way turns into "smooth water" of Russian economic crisis, which smooth surface was not ruffled in 2016 even by declarations about its prompt termination. Ambiguous demand dynamic together with...

Final estimate given by the Index of Adaptability for Q3 2016 has confirmed the increased level of Russian industry adaptability to the crisis of 2014–2016. The indicator has conclusively registered its all-time maximum at 74% for the entire period of monitoring 1994–2016 (Fig. 1). Review...

Import substitution in the Russian industry shows obvious signs of a slowdown. Both comparative results of actually implemented import substitution quarter-on-quarter and plans of enterprises for the last quarter of the current year attest to this. At the same time, import substitution of...

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...

Russian Abstract: Майская экономическая статистика демонстрирует продолжение и развитие негативных тенденций, обозначившихся еще в апреле: несмотря на...

Russian Abstract: Начавшееся в апреле и продолжившееся в мае снижение темпов инфляции в годовом выражении связано с одновременным действием нескольких факторов –...

Even the minimum production growth forces enterprises to step up requirements to the demand, which is so far insufficient to bottom out. Meanwhile, according to the Gaidar Institute business surveys enterprises still are ready to take risks and do not revise their estimates of finished products...

The section is 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...