This paper introduces this special issue of Economic Modelling which marks the significant contribution made by P.A.V.B Swamy to econometrics. His work spans almost 50 years and has been both innovative and challenging. The many distinguished authors who have contributed to this volume...

Surveys improve forecasting performance by adding explanatory power to a model which is based on only past values of manufacturing growth. The issue addressed in this paper is whether surveys of production expectations, when added to equations that contain lagged values of a headline index...