Dresse, Luc; Nieuwenhuyze, Christophe Van - Nationale Bank van België/Banque national de Belqique (BNB) - 2008
This paper uses a frequency domain approach to gain insight into the correlation between survey indicators and year-on-year GDP growth. Using the Baxter-King filter, we split up each series into three components: a short-term, a business cycle (oscillations between 18 and 96 months) and a...