{"title":"The development of German business in Russia in 2021-2022: top-managers opinion","authors":"M. Gracheva","doi":"10.20542/reb.rus-2022-1-11-19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20542/reb.rus-2022-1-11-19","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents the results of the survey of the heads of structural divisions operating in Russia – on the outcome of their activity in 2021 and expectations for 2022. Top-managers indicate the improvement of business climate in 2021 and express the optimism in relation to the situation in 2022. Most of them define their current business position in Russia as satisfactory or bad. The majority of them do not plan to attract additional labor force and to implement new investment projects in 2022. Respondents highlight three most acute current problems of the Russian market (rouble’s exchange rate, anti-Russian sanctions, bureaucracy), hope for maintaining or increasing the level of German-Russian relations under the new German government. They consider it impossible to put the gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 into operation in principle or without the fulfillment of preconditions, expect Russia’s role as an energy partner of the EU to weaken or stagnate by 2050, indicate the most promising business sectors and regions of the country.","PeriodicalId":104747,"journal":{"name":"Russian Economic Barometer","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127345854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assessment of Economic Policy in 2020","authors":"S. Aukutsionek","doi":"10.20542/2307-0390-2017-4-3-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20542/2307-0390-2017-4-3-9","url":null,"abstract":"The article describes how the managers of Russia’s industrial and agricultural enterprises (the Russian Economic Barometer’s respondents) assess the governmental economic policy through the end of 2020. The author presents the data on the proportion of managers who understand and approve of this policy and on the first-priority measures that they consider necessary to stimulate production.","PeriodicalId":104747,"journal":{"name":"Russian Economic Barometer","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123139131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investment behavior of enterprises in 2021–2022","authors":"S. Aukutsionek","doi":"10.20542/reb.rus-2022-3-3-12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20542/reb.rus-2022-3-3-12","url":null,"abstract":"The article outlines the trends of 2021 – the first half of 2022 in the field of investment behavior of enterprises. There are examined: the level of investment activity both in terms of equipment purchases and total capital investment; the rating of factors limiting capital investment; the main sources of funds for investment and principal motives to invest; the features of borrowings from banks to finance investment.","PeriodicalId":104747,"journal":{"name":"Russian Economic Barometer","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133375423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pandemic restrictions are over: an overview of changes in the main economic indicators of enterprises. Part 2. Investment activity of enterprises and changes in the output structure","authors":"A. Batyaeva","doi":"10.20542/reb.rus-2023-1-3-12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20542/reb.rus-2023-1-3-12","url":null,"abstract":"The article considers several aspects of the investment activity of enterprises (the involvement of enterprises in investment activities, the effectiveness of investments, the payback period, the availability of investment loans, production and technological innovations and changes in the structure of output). The main goal is to compare various characteristics of the investment behavior of enterprises during the period of COVID restrictions with the situation before their introduction and immediately after their removal. Contrary to trendy expectations, COVID restrictions did not collapse the investment activity of the enterprises. At the first stage of the pandemic, it stabilized, and then began to growth. COVID had a smaller negative effect on the investment activity of industrial enterprises than the crises of 1998-1999, 2008-2009 and 2014-2015. During the period of restrictions, the effectiveness of investments turned out to be worse than at previous highs, but in general it corresponded to the level of long-term averages. Manufacturers traditionally face great difficulties in obtaining investment loans. In this regard, the isolation of enterprises from the banking sector was increasing during the COVID period, but this negative trend had been formed long before COVID.","PeriodicalId":104747,"journal":{"name":"Russian Economic Barometer","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132240255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Aukutsionek, A. Batyaeva, N. Dyomina, A. Egorov, A. Matveev
{"title":"REB’s statistical series: surveys of industrial enterprises","authors":"S. Aukutsionek, A. Batyaeva, N. Dyomina, A. Egorov, A. Matveev","doi":"10.20542/2307-0390-2018-3/4-33-64","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20542/2307-0390-2018-3/4-33-64","url":null,"abstract":"Industrial indexes of the Russian Economic Barometer cover a wide range of economic indicators of Russia’s industrial enterprises. The article presents the basic statistical data collected on a monthly, quarterly and semi-annual base by the Russian Economic Barometer through direct surveys of industrial enterprises’ managers. Regular extension of rows allows to consider the dynamics of more than 100 series of indicators, to conduct a comparative analysis of data collected since 1991.","PeriodicalId":104747,"journal":{"name":"Russian Economic Barometer","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116127988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pandemic restrictions are over: an overview of changes in the main economic indicators of enterprises. Part 1. Production, prices, employment, financial situation of companies and profitability","authors":"A. Batyaeva","doi":"10.20542/reb.rus-2022-4-3-16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20542/reb.rus-2022-4-3-16","url":null,"abstract":"The article outlines the dynamics of output, prices, wages, employment and various indicators characterizing the financial situation of enterprises during the pandemic period. It is shown that output and employment decreased during the covid period not as considerably as it was expected, and the indicators characterizing prices increased very significantly. Inflation processes unfolded during this period more actively than the indicators of physical output and employment decreased. Being at very low values by the beginning of the covid period, the financial situation of the surveyed enterprises significantly improved by its end and returned to the highs of the pre-pandemic period, and in terms of profitability and the share of companies who consider the probability of their bankruptcy in the coming year or two unrealistic, reached record highs for the entire observation period.","PeriodicalId":104747,"journal":{"name":"Russian Economic Barometer","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116710019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How does the Renewal of Trading Partners Affect the Economic Activity of Enterprises?","authors":"A. Batyaeva","doi":"10.20542/reb.rus-2021-4-3-14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20542/reb.rus-2021-4-3-14","url":null,"abstract":"The article dwells upon the following issues connected with the behavior of enterprises in relation to their trading partners: what are the main characteristics of the process of renewal of trading partners? What is the share of enterprises actively changing their counterparts? Did the process of changing partners fade or gain momentum in the period from 1992 to 2000? Are there differences in the indicators of economic activity (prices, capacity and labor utilization rates, orders, stocks, investments, financial situation) between those who actively changed partners and those whose trading partner’s structure was more or less stable? What happens in times of crisis: do enterprises tend to preserve their business relationships or, conversely, do they have to revise them more actively? The unique REB surveys data makes it possible to get answers to these and other questions.","PeriodicalId":104747,"journal":{"name":"Russian Economic Barometer","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115326731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Competition and competitive power of enterprises in 2020-2021","authors":"A. Egorov","doi":"10.20542/2307-0390-2021-3-3-16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20542/2307-0390-2021-3-3-16","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents the results of the survey about competitiveness held by the REB among the Russian industrial managers, who assessed the level of competitiveness of their production and level of intensity of competition; evaluate the markets where their production is competitive; estimate the factors negatively affecting competitiveness both on the side of enterprises and on the side of economic policy of the state. The article examines the role of the state in increasing competitiveness, as well as the degree of impact of sanctions and coronavirus on competitiveness. The data are presented for entire 22-year period of surveys on competitiveness, but special attention is paid to the trends of 2020-2021.","PeriodicalId":104747,"journal":{"name":"Russian Economic Barometer","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123615266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Aukutsionek, A. Batyaeva, N. Dyomina, A. Egorov, A. Matveev
{"title":"REB’s statistical series: surveys of agricultural enterprises","authors":"S. Aukutsionek, A. Batyaeva, N. Dyomina, A. Egorov, A. Matveev","doi":"10.20542/2307-0390-2018-3/4-65-69","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20542/2307-0390-2018-3/4-65-69","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents unique data on the Russian agricultural sector, which has been gathered by the Russian Economic Barometer for almost 30 years. There is published statistics reflecting the attitude of the heads of agricultural enterprises towards the economic policy of the government. There are presented data revealing the degree of importance for the agricultural producers of various factors limiting production and capital investments.","PeriodicalId":104747,"journal":{"name":"Russian Economic Barometer","volume":"203 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134097935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The 2019 surveys of industrial enterprises: results and forecasts","authors":"S. Aukutsionek, O. Zhukov","doi":"10.20542/0202-179X-2018-1-3-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20542/0202-179X-2018-1-3-9","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents the results of economic activity of Russian industrial enterprises in 2019, and provides forecasts for 2020. In general for the major part of the surveyed enterprises (REB’s respondents) 2019 turned out to be not worse than the previous year and judging by investment parameters even better. Forecasts for 2020 are not as optimistic as they were a year ago.","PeriodicalId":104747,"journal":{"name":"Russian Economic Barometer","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127083604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}