to improve spending efficiency and contain future spending pressures. The analysis benchmarks spending in Lithuania …

Statistical offices have often recourse to benchmarking methods for compiling quarterly national accounts (QNA …). Benchmarking methods employ quarterly indicator series (i) to distribute annual, more reliable series of national accounts and (ii …) benchmarking method proposed by Denton (1971) is a widely used solution for distribution, but in extrapolation it may suffer when …

market efficiency and areas related to innovation. For the generally more ambitious goal of reaching average EU income, the …

, as well as Sweden as a benchmark. Profitability and efficiency of resource allocation of SOEs lag those of private firms …

Benchmarking methods can be used to extrapolate (or 'nowcast') low-frequency benchmarks on the basis of available high …, this paper aims at assessing the prediction accuracy of three benchmarking methods widely used in the national accounts …