Do forecasters inform or reassure?
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Keywords
Quality of statistical data; real-time data; signal-to-noise ratio; forecasts; revisions;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBA-2009-03-22 (Central Banking)
- NEP-EEC-2009-03-22 (European Economics)
- NEP-FOR-2009-03-22 (Forecasting)
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