Do Forecasters Inform or Reassure?: Evaluation of the German Real-Time Data
Konstantin Kholodilin () and
Boriss Siliverstovs
No 858, Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin from DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research
Abstract:
The paper evaluates the quality of the German national accounting data (GDP and its use-side components) as measured by the magnitude and dispersion of the forecast/ revision errors. It is demonstrated that government consumption series are the least reliable, whereas real GDP and real private consumption data are the most reliable. In addition, early forecasts of GDP, private consumption, and investment growth rates are shown to be systematically upward biased. Finally, early forecasts of all the variables seem to be no more accurate than naïve forecasts based on the historical mean of the final data.
Keywords: Quality of statistical data; real-time data; signal-to-noise ratio; forecasts; revisions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C53 C89 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 p.
Date: 2009
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