Monthly GDP Estimates for Inter-War Britain

James Mitchell, Solomos Solomou and Martin Weale ()

Cambridge Working Papers in Economics from Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge

Abstract: We derive monthly and quarterly series of UK GDP for the inter-war period from a set of monthly indicators that were constructed by The Economist at the time. The monthly information is complemented with data for quarterly industrial production, allowing us to employ mixed-frequency methods to produce monthly estimates of GDP and of industrial production. We proceed to illustrate how the new data compare with existing high frequency data and how they can be used to contribute to our understanding of the economic history of the UK in the inter-war period and to draw comparisons between recession profiles in the inter-war and the post-war period.

Keywords: Economic History; National Accounts; Monthly GDP Data; Great Depression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C82 N34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-09-14
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Journal Article: Monthly GDP estimates for inter-war Britain (2012)
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