Does consumer sentiment accurately forecast UK household consumption? Are there any comparisons to be made with the US?

Journal of Macroeconomics

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 517-532

  Easaw, Joshy Z ^a   Garratt, Dean ^b   Heravi, Saeed M ^c  

^a a joint workplace of Charles University and the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences   (United Kingdom)

^b NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consumer sentiment; Directional analysis; Forecastability; Household consumption behavior; Instrumental variables

Indexed keywords

EID: 24344485533     PISSN: 01640704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmacro.2004.03.001     Document Type: Article

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