HSE experts and analysts: who are they?
Leonid Gokhberg, director of the Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge and first vice-rector of the HSE, told the Okna Rosta about analytical publications and other public activities by the HSE experts.
Growing Demand Revives Retail
A seasonal revival in consumer demand stimulated an increase inretail trade in Q2 2014. Food retail showed the best results, but intensified moods to save household earnings, a slowdown in income growth, high inflation, and difficulties in obtaining consumer credit might soon change the situation, according to experts from the Centre for Business Tendency Studies at HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge in their latest monitoring of the retail business climate.
25%
of industrial companies are anticipating further price increases in the next 3-4 months for the products they manufacture. 38% of enterprises expect growing prices for raw materials. This information comes from a monitoring study on the business climate in the production industry carried out by the Centre for Business Tendency Studies at the HSE’s ISSEK.
27%
of Russian families are prepared to support their children until they finish their undergraduate degree. This data was obtained during a survey of Russian families with children aged 4—22 that was conducted in the autumn of 2013 as part of a joint project between the Monitoring of Education Markets and Organisations (MEMO project is coordinated by HSE ISSEK Centre for Statistics and Monitoring of Education) and the Public Opinion Foundation.
24%
of construction companies reduced their headcount in the second quarter of 2014. This information comes from a new monitoring survey of the business climate in the construction industry conducted by the Centre for Business Tendency Studies at HSE ISSEK.
Information Society: Trends in Regions of the Russian Federation
The data book is issued for the first time by HSE ISSEK together with Federal State Statistics Service and presents the main trends in information society development in the subjects of the Russian Federation.
+6%
— the level to which the business confidence index in retail trade has risen. This information comes from ‘The Business Climate in Retail Trade,’ a report by the Centre for Business Tendency Studies at the HSE’s Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge.
Enterprise statistics’ role in monitoring economic growth
Enterprise statistics are closely connected to R&D, innovation, and ICT statistics. Experts specialising in these fields attendedInternational Seminar on Industrial Statistics held in Vienna on 11—13 June. Natalia Kovaleva, director of the ISSEK’s Centre for Statistics and Monitoring of Education, presented a review of Russian enterprise statistics, and spoke about the institute’s research in the area of statistics and monitoring economics of knowledge.
The second round of providing support to innovative territorial clusters
Russian Cluster Observatory’s experts Yevgeny Kutsenko and Sergei Artemov commented on major new features of the 2014 budget policy regarding providing support to innovative territorial clusters, announced on 9 June at the meeting held at the RF Ministry of Economic Development. From this year onwards, federal subsidies increase to 2.5 billion roubles, and all 25 pilot clusters are now eligible to this money.
SPIEF–2014: On Technology and Trust
St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF–2014) was held on May 22—24 under the motto "Sustaining Confidence in a World Undergoing Transformation". Ozcan Saritas, the leading research fellow at HSE ISSEK Research Laboratory for Science and Technology Studies, participated in its panel session “Will Technology Hollow out the Global Middle Class?”.