On The Predictive Content Of Production Surveys: A Pan-European Study
2004-02-20
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For over forty years, Business Tendency Surveys have been collected in multiple member states of the European Union. Previous research has studied the predictive accuracy of the expectation variables included in those surveys through bivariate, within-country, Granger-causality tests, which has resulted in mixed conclusions. We extend previous research in various ways, as we (i) explicitly allow for cross-country influences, and (ii) do so using both bivariate and multivariate Granger-causality tests. Specifically, the multivariate El-Himdi and Roy test is adapted to jointly test the forecasting value of multiple production expectation series, to assess whether part of this joint effect is indeed due to cross-country influences, and to determine which countries' expectation series have most "clout" in predicting the production levels in the other member countries, or have higher "receptivity", in that their production levels are Granger-caused by the other countries' expectations.
- M31 : Marketing
- M : Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting
- C44 : Statistical Decision Theory; Operations Research
- C53 : Forecasting and Other Model Applications
- country
- series
- survey
- business
- pexp series
- granger
- pacc series
- granger causality
- european
- multivariate
- business tendency surveys
- european union
- production
- level
- content
- cross-country
- causality
- value
- member states
- table
