, Survey of Professional Forecasters, and the Michigan Survey. While useful in developing models of forecasting inflation … from internet search queries performed on the search engine Google. The forecasting performance of the Google Inflation … Search Index (GISI) is assessed relative to 37 other indicators of inflation expectations – 36 survey measures and the TIPS …

This study sheds new light on the question of whether or not sentiment surveys, and the expectations derived from them …, are relevant to forecasting economic growth and stock returns, and whether they contain information that is orthogonal to … macroeconomic and financial data. I examine 16 sentiment surveys of distinct respondent universes and employ the technique of …

Michigan Surveys of Consumers. While these measures have been useful in developing models of forecasting inflation, the data … on three survey measures of expected inflation: the Livingston Survey, the Survey of Professional Forecasters, and the …-time measures of inflation expectations. These higher frequency measures tend to outperform the standard three low frequency survey …

monthly to daily observations on exchange rates. Thus the basic thrust of the paper is to analyse the forecasting accuracy of …

dialectics between science and art. The traditional distinction between deduction and induction has come to be characterized as a …

The paper deals with some new indices for ordinal data that arise from sample surveys. Their aim is to measure the …

A survey conducted in 1975, as part of the World Fertility Survey programme, provided evidence that fertility began to … decline in Pakistan during the early 1970s. Because of the low level of contraceptive use recorded in that survey, the … fertility decline was attributed to delayed marriage. However, a second and similar survey conducted approximately 5 years later …