Transportation Indicators and Business Cycles recognises the important role the transportation sector plays in business cycle propagation and develops indicators for this sector to identify its current state, and predict its future. The reference cycle is defined, including business and growth...

Das vorliegende Buch beinhaltet sämtliche Beiträge der 23. CIRET-Konferenz, die 1997 in Helsinki sattfand. Schwerpunkte waren dabei der internationale Wettbewerb, der Dienstleistungssektor, die Erhebung und Verwendung von Umfragedaten sowie Finazindikatoren. Besondere Bedeutung haben dabei die...

Economists around the world rely in addition to official statistics on business (and consumer) surveys, which are more up-to-date. However, for many emerging and developing countries there is a lack of such surveys. This gap can, at least partly, be filled by the Ifo World Economic Survey (WES)....

Comprehensive and international comparable leading indicators across countries and continents are rare. In this paper, we use a free and instantaneous available source of leading indicators, the ifo World Economic Survey (WES), to forecast growth of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 44 countries...