Crosilla, Luciana; Malgarini, Marco - In: ECONOMIA E POLITICA INDUSTRIALE 2011/4 (2011) 4, pp. 139-163
Survey data on manufacturing firms are usually analysed on an aggregate basis, calculating for each question the so-called "balance" between the number of positive and negative replies. The simple average of selected balances is then commonly used to calculate the confidence indicator. While...