This study investigates usefulness of business tendency surveys in industrial sector for out-of-sample prediction of growth of industrial production in Russia. A special attention is paid to performance of survey-augmented models during the recent Great Recession 2008/2009. Using the real-time...

In Q3 2021, the Russian industry demonstrated a high level of adaptation to thecurrent economic environment. High estimates of demand by industrial enterpriseslargely contributed to the growth of Adaptation Index, as well as the availability ofstocks of finished products and production capacity....