Business survey data: Do they help in forecasting GDP growth?

International Journal of Forecasting

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 377-389

  Hansson, Jesper ^a   Jansson, Per ^b   Löf, Mårten ^a  

^a Natl Institute of Economic Research   (Sweden)

^b SVERIGES RIKSBANK   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Business survey data; Dynamic factor models; Macroeconomic forecasting

Indexed keywords

EID: 14844309292     PISSN: 01692070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijforecast.2004.11.003     Document Type: Article

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