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

Dean Croushore

Business Review, 2006, issue Q3, 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 surveys; Consumer behavior (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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