Managers of the enterprises in this survey have optimistic expectations for future economic perspectives in the next 6 months: 41.6% expect the business climate to improve while only 15.1% believe that it will deteriorate. Compared to the 3rd quarter of 2001 (the last round of this survey) the index of business climate expectations has increased from 0.07 to 0.27. However, managers of small firms (in terms of employment) are less optimistic than those of large firms.
In contrast to such positive expectations, managers’ evaluation of the current business climate remains negative. 36.3% of the respondents assess the current business conditions as “bad” while only 8 % think they are favorable.