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Architecture Billings as a Leading Indicator of Construction

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  • Kermit Baker
  • Diego Saltes

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Due to the size and cyclicality of construction, a premium is placed on accurately predicting nonresidential construction trends, particularly at turning points in the construction cycle. Given that construction decisions are made by hundreds of thousands of businesses, nonprofit institutions, and government organizations, it is extremely difficult to get comprehensive information on building plans. However, since architects design the overwhelming majority of nonresidential construction projects, gathering information on billings at architecture firms provides leading information on future construction trends. Statistical analysis demonstrates that information provided by architecture firms on trends in their billings is highly correlated with the eventual nonresidential construction activity, with leads of up to one year.Business Economics (2005) 40, 67–73; doi:10.2145/20050406

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  • Kermit Baker & Diego Saltes, 2005. "Architecture Billings as a Leading Indicator of Construction," Business Economics, Palgrave Macmillan;National Association for Business Economics, vol. 40(4), pages 67-73, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:buseco:v:40:y:2005:i:4:p:67-73
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    1. Basse, Tobias & Desmyter, Steven & Saft, Danilo & Wegener, Christoph, 2023. "Leading indicators for the US housing market: New empirical evidence and thoughts about implications for risk managers and ESG investors," International Review of Financial Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 89(C).
    2. Steffen Heinig & Anupam Nanda & Sotiris Tsolacos, 2016. "Which Sentiment Indicators Matter? An Analysis of the European Commercial Real Estate Market," ICMA Centre Discussion Papers in Finance icma-dp2016-04, Henley Business School, University of Reading.

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