Qualitative survey data on changes in production, inventory, new order, and employment collected every month by the National Association of Purchasing Managers are analysed over 1948-90. The Probability method we use generates time-series estimates of cross-section variabilities across firms. It is
Forecasting the business cycle using survey data
✍ Scribed by Lars-Erik Öller
- Book ID
- 119138566
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 828 KB
- Volume
- 6
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0169-2070
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