Consumer confidence surveys: can they help us forecast consumer spending in real time?

Dean Croushore ()

Business Review, 2006, issue Q3, pages 1-9

Abstract: In “Consumer Confidence Surveys: Can They Help Us Forecast Consumer Spending in Real Time?,” Dean Croushore uses the Philadelphia Fed’s real-time data set to investigate an important question: Does using data available to forecasters at the time — that is, real-time data — make measures of consumer confidence more valuable for forecasting?

Keywords: Consumer behavior; Consumer surveys (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006

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