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Evaluating the German inventory cycle : using data from the Ifo business survey

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dc.creator Knetsch, Thomas A.
dc.date 2004
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T07:01:33Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T07:01:33Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18841
dc.identifier ppn:389894443
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18841
dc.description Inventory fluctuations are an important phenomenon in business cycles. However, the preliminary data on inventory investment as published in the German national accounts are tremendously prone to revision and therefore ill-equipped to diagnose the current stance of the inventory cycle. The Ifo business survey contains information on the assessments of inventory stocks in manufacturing as well as in retail and wholesale trade. Static factor analysis and a method building on canonical correlations are applied to construct a composite index of inventory fluctuations. Based on recursive estimates, the different variants are assessed as regards the stability of the weighting schemes and the ability to forecast the ?true? inventory fluctuations better than the preliminary official releases.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher
dc.relation CESifo working papers 1202
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject E22
dc.subject C32
dc.subject C52
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject inventory investment
dc.subject revisions
dc.subject composite indices
dc.subject canonical correlation
dc.subject factor models
dc.subject national accounts data
dc.subject Ifo business survey
dc.subject Germany
dc.subject Lagerzyklus
dc.subject Konjunkturumfrage
dc.subject Schätzung
dc.subject Deutschland
dc.title Evaluating the German inventory cycle : using data from the Ifo business survey
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper
dc.coverage 1970-2003


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