, 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 …

In this paper, the relevance of national accounts statistics and their underlying conceptual framework is investigated … for their four roles: description and object of analysis, tool for analysis and forecasting, tool for communication and … national accounts statistics are described and discussed. Proper use should be stimulated by improving education and marketing …

well as the farmers’welfare. In this paper, we take up time series modelling and forecasting of the Sarawak black pepper …

reform. The present analysis is based on the results of an empirical survey that took place during 2009. For the purposes of … this survey, a structured questionnaire was prepared and sent to the Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) of 132 Greek public …