Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Izryadnova Olga Author-Name-First: Olga Author-Name-Last: Izryadnova Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy Title: Fixed investment in Russia in 2018 Abstract: Macroeconomic situation in 2017–2018 was marked by the outstripping growth rates of fixed investments relative to GDP performance and final consumption of households. In 2018, amid fixed investments increase by 4.3 percent, GDP growth constituted 2.3 percent relative to the corresponding period of the previous year. However, despite the upward trend of fixed investments seen in 2017–2018, the economy has retained the impact from the acute investment crisis of 2014–2016. Vis-a-vis pre-crisis 2012 fixed investments registered in 2018 came to merely 97.3 percent and the construction work volume to 95.7 percent. Classification-JEL: E20, E21, E22, E60 Keywords: Russian economy, fixed investment Creation-Date: 2019 Revision-Date: 2019 Length: 10 pages File-URL: https://www.iep.ru/files/RePEc/gai/ppaper/ppaper-2019-970.pdf File-Format: application/pdf File-Function: Revised Version, 2019 Handle: RePEc:gai:ppaper:ppaper-2019-970