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| Author: | Garratt, A. Vahey, S.P. |
| Title: | UK real-time macro data characteristics |
| Journal: | Economic Journal
2006 : FEB, VOL. 116:509, p. F119-F135 |
| Index terms: | macroeconomics economic indicators economic conditions statistics United Kingdom |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This study characterizes the relationships btw. preliminary and subsequent measurements for 16 commonly-used U.K. macroeconomic indicators drawn from two existing real-time data sets and a new nominal variable database. To illustrate how the findings facilitate real-time forecasting, a vector autoregresion is used to generate real-time one step ahead probability event forecasts for 1990/Q1 to 1999/Q2. |
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