Electronic Indicators of Economic Activity

Troy Gill, Dilhan Perera and David Sunner
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Troy Gill: Reserve Bank of Australia
Dilhan Perera: Reserve Bank of Australia
David Sunner: Reserve Bank of Australia

RBA Bulletin (Print copy discontinued), 2012, 1-12

Abstract: There is a rich array of timely high-frequency electronic data that potentially is informative about current economic conditions. In particular, data on electronic transactions and internet searches can be useful complements to more standard indicators of economic activity. While a limited selection of electronic data is currently used by national statisticians in the production of economic indicators, electronic data are likely to become an increasingly important source of information

Keywords: Indicator; Electronic; SWIFT; Internet search; forecasting; card transactions; payments; RITS; Demand; Consumption; GDP; Google (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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