Trésor-Economics No. 16 - Do financial variables yield greater insight into the economic situation in real time?
There are several methods for dating past economic cycles, but it is harder to define where we are in the cycle in real time. The difficulty in detecting turning points sufficiently quickly can give rise to substantial forecasting errors, generally common to the entire forecasting community.The practice, in that case, consists in consulting business tendency surveys and, in the past ten years or s... Lire la suite