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A Monthly Indicator of GDP

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2020

Eduardo Salazar ,
Richard Smith ,
Martin Weale  and
Stephen Wright
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Abstract

Cyclical indicators have hitherto been used as a means of describing the state of the economy on a month by month basis. However, they have proved unsatisfactory for a number of reasons and are now no longer published. This paper summarises a means of producing monthly estimates of GDP from existing monthly data. The technique can be used to extrapolate as well as to interpolate monthly data and therefore provides an indicator of the current state of the economy.

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National Institute Economic Review , Volume 161 , July 1997 , pp. 84 - 89
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Copyright © 1997 National Institute of Economic and Social Research

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Footnotes

This research has been supported by the ESRC under research grant L116251016.

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