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Ifo Survey Data in Business Cycle and Monetary Policy Analysis

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2005

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Editors:
  1. Jan-Egbert Sturm

    1. Department of Economics, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
      TWI — Thurgau Institute of Economics, Kreuzlingen 2, Switzerland

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  2. Timo Wollmershäuser

    1. Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich, Germany

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Table of contents (9 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. Survey Activity of the Ifo Institute

    • Gernot Nerb
    Pages 1-15

  3. Business Cycle Analysis

    1. Forecasting Quarterly German GDP at Monthly Intervals Using Monthly Ifo Business Conditions Data

      • Stefan Mittnik, Peter Zadrozny
      Pages 19-48

    2. Real Wages and Business Cycle Asymmetries

      • Ulrich Woitek
      Pages 49-60

    3. Evaluating the German Inventory Cycle Using Data from the Ifo Business Survey

      • Thomas A. Knetsch
      Pages 61-92

    4. Do Ifo Indicators Help Explain Revisions in German Industrial Production?

      • Jan Jacobs, Jan-Egbert Sturm
      Pages 93-114

    5. A Leading Indicator for the Dutch Economy

      • Henk Kranendonk, Jan Bonenkamp, Johan Verbruggen
      Pages 115-142
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A pilot ?ying to a distant city needs to check his position, ?ight path and weather conditions, and must constantly keep his plane under control to land safely.TheIfosurveydataprovideadvanceinformationonchangingeconomic weather conditions and help keep the economy under control. To be sure, by their very nature they only provide short-term information. But like a plane, the economy will not be able to reach its long-term goals if it strays o? course in the short term. The Ifo survey data provide the most comprehensive and accurate, - to-date database in Europe on the state of the business cycle, and the Ifo climate indicator, sometimes simply called “The Ifo”, is the most frequently cited indicator of its kind in Europe. Both the European stock market and theeuroreacttoourindicator.Ifo’smethodologyfordeterminingthebusiness climateindicatorhasbeenexportedtomorethan?ftycountries,mostrecently toTurkeyandChina.TheIfopeoplewereproudtohavebeenaskedtohelpset up polling systems in these countries. It is said that the Chinese government relies more on their “Ifo indicator” than on their o?cial accounting statistics.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Economics, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

    Jan-Egbert Sturm

  • TWI — Thurgau Institute of Economics, Kreuzlingen 2, Switzerland

    Jan-Egbert Sturm

  • Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich, Germany

    Timo Wollmershäuser

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