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Qualitative Survey Responses and Production over the Business Cycle

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  • Lindström, Tomas

    (Monetary Policy Department, Central Bank of Sweden)

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    An examination of Swedish manufacturing data on real output and qualitative business tendency survey (BTS) responses from 1968 through 1998 reveals that survey-based attitude data typically improve the fit of simple autoprojective models of manufacturing output growth. It also turns out that traditional autoregressive distributed lag (ADL) models based on business survey data can provide more accurate one-quarter-ahead forecasts of output growth than naive alternatives. Another finding is that when BTS variables concerning ex post (ex ante) output growth are included in the empirical specifications, then no other ex post (ex ante) business survey variables seems to include any additional information about output growth.

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    Paper provided by Sveriges Riksbank (Central Bank of Sweden) in its series Working Paper Series with number 116.

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    Length: 29 pages
    Date of creation: 01 Nov 2000
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    Handle: RePEc:hhs:rbnkwp:0116

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    Keywords: Business cycles; Economic indicators; Manufacturing; Survey data; Time-series models;

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    1. Hansson, Jesper & Jansson, Per & Löf, Mårten, 2003. "Business Survey Data: Do They Help in Forecasting the Macro Economy?," Working Paper Series 151, Sveriges Riksbank (Central Bank of Sweden).

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