Economic Forecasting provides a comprehensive overview of macroeconomic forecasting. The focus is first on a wide range of theories as well as empirical methods: business cycle analysis, time series methods, macroeconomic models, medium and long-run projections, fiscal and financial forecasts,...

Economic activity, this useful relationship has not been supported by empirical testing Although housing activity has often been used as a leading indicator of general using econometric procedures. In this chapter, we investigate whether housing activity does prove to be a leading indicator...