Forecasting Uses of Anticipatory Data on Investment and Sales

Franco Modigliani and H. M. Weingartner

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1958, vol. 72, issue 1, 23-54

Abstract: I. Introduction, 23; purpose of the analysis, 23; nature of the data, 25. — II. Direct forecasting value of the anticipatory data, 26; capital outlay plans, 26; sales anticipations, 34. — III. Errors of sales anticipations and the realization of investment plans — an example of the realization function approach, 36; statement of the problem, 36; formulation of the model, 39; empirical results, 43; some analytical implications, 47; some forecasting implications, 50. — Appendix, 53.

Date: 1958
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