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 (May-August 2023)
Title: Хозяйственное обозрение (май-август 2023 г.)
Abstract: In May 2023, the level of capacity utilization rate reached 90% – the maximum value in REB in the entire history of observations since December 1991. In one percentage point from the maximum was the value of the labor utilization rate – 97%. In general, many indicators surveyed by the REB in May looked quite optimistic, for example, the diffusion wage index amounted to 61%. The only exception was the diffusion employment index, which fell by 15 percentage points per month to 44%. The most optimistic forecast was the diffusion index of the financial condition expected in three months, which reached 63% – the maximum value in the REB’s polls over the past 10 years.
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: 8
Month: August
Pages: 37-44
File-URL: http://www.iep.ru/files/RePEc/gai/recdev/r2365.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
Handle: RePEc:gai:recdev:r2365