Economic Data Dissemination: What Influences Country Performanceon Frequency and Timiliness?

Mehmet Agça and Peter Allum

No 2001/173, IMF Working Papers from International Monetary Fund

Abstract: Despite initial improvements in macroeconomic data dissemination following the emerging markets crises of the late-1990s, large differences among countries remain. To identify the factors behind such differences, this paper develops measures of the frequency and timeliness of macroeconomic data dissemination for 180 countries. After discussing potential factors influencing data dissemination, the paper confirms the importance of a range of economic, social, and demographic factors. The relative importance of these factors in different regions is discussed, as well as the broader policy implications for strengthening macroeconomic data dissemination.

Keywords: WP; economy; country; transition economy; macroeconomic data dissemination; transparency; economic statistics; Western Hemisphere economy; BRO economy; data frequency index; Latin American economy; Data dissemination; Data processing; International capital markets; Middle East; Western Hemisphere; South America; Sub-Saharan Africa; East Asia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25
Date: 2001-11-01
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.aspx?sk=15437 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:imf:imfwpa:2001/173

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/pubs/ord_info.htm

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in IMF Working Papers from International Monetary Fund International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC USA. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Akshay Modi (amodi@imf.org).