The Use of Qualitative Business Tendency Surveys for Forecasting Business Investment in Germany

Klaus Abberger

No No.13, ifo Working Paper Series from ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich

Abstract: Investment in equipment and machinery is a very important component of GDP. In this paper we examine whether data from business tendency surveys are useful for a timely assessment of current investment behavior. In addition we investigate whether the survey results are helpful for forecasting investment growth in the short run. The first question is addressed with the help of spectral analysis. To study the forecast ability we estimate linear autoregressive and additive autoregressive models. The forecasting performance is assessed through filtered residuals. The analyses show that the business survey is indeed a useful tool for assessing investment in equipment and machinery.

JEL-codes: C20 C40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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