Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Sergey P. Aukutsionek
Author-Workplace-Name: Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences
Author-Name: Andrey S. Yegorov
Author-Workplace-Name: Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences
Author-Name: Inessa A. Bachirova 
Author-Workplace-Name: Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences
Author-Name: Tatyana V. Serzhantova
Author-Workplace-Name: Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences
Title: Survey of Current Business (February-May 2023)
Title: Хозяйственное обозрение (февраль-май 2023 г.)
Abstract: In February 2023, the level of the production capacity utilization rate for the second time in the history of REB’s observations (for the first time it happened in October 2022) amounted to a maximum of 89%. The level of the labor utilization rate is also almost at its maximum – 96% (compared to normal monthly level = 100%). The diffusion index of employment, having added 7 points per months, reached the maximum level for the entire 30-year history of observations – 58%. Among the diffusion indices of expected in three months changes, which in recent months look very optimistic, the output index should be noted. It added 2 more points and reached 69% – a value close to its maximum (it had raised higher only 5 times).
Keywords: Russia, industry, industrial enterprises, price level, wages, employment, output, investment, indebtedness to banks, order-book level, stocks of finished products, capacity utilization rate, financial situation, production restrictive factors
Classification-JEL: D22, D24, G31, L23, P23
Journal: Russian Economic Developments
Year: 2023
Issue: 5
Month: May
Pages: 51-59
File-URL: http://www.iep.ru/files/RePEc/gai/recdev/r2339.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
Handle: RePEc:gai:recdev:r2339