Meet the BOSS - the Australian Business Outlook Scenarios Survey

Ben Zhe Wang, Jeffrey Sheen, Natalia Ponomareva and Nicholas Bloom

CAMA Working Papers from Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University

Abstract: The Business Outlook Scenarios Survey (BOSS), launched in June 2024, is a new monthly longitudinal survey capturing the perceptions of Australian business financial decision makers, with a particular focus on the future trajectories of key macroeconomic variables such as interest rates and inflation, as well as firm-specific indicators like sales, employment, costs, and prices. This paper outlines the survey’s design and core questions, presents headline time-series indicators for the Australian economy, and examines alternative question designs and data constructions.

Keywords: business survey; expectations; uncertainty; monetary policy; survey methodology; Australia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C83 D84 E31 E52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 59 pages
Date: 2026-08
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