Arbeitspapier

Measuring confidence and uncertainty during the financial crisis: Evidence from the CFS survey

The CFS survey covers individual situations of banks and other companies of the financial sector during the financial crisis. This provides a rare possibility to analyze appraisals, expectations and forecast errors of the core sector of the recent turmoil. Following standard ways of aggregating individual survey data, we first present and introduce the CFS survey by comparing CFS indicators of confidence and predicted confidence to ifo and ZEW indicators. The major contribution is the analysis of several indicators of uncertainty. In addition to well established concepts, we introduce innovative measures based on the skewness of forecast errors and on the share of 'no response' replies. Results show that uncertainty indicators fit quite well with pattern of real and financial time series of the time period 2007 to 2010.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CFS Working Paper ; No. 2010/18

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Financial Crises
Financial Forecasting and Simulation
Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
Thema
Business Sentiment
Financial Crisis
Survey Indicator
Uncertainty

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Entorf, Horst
Knoll, Christian
Sattarova, Liliya
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Goethe University Frankfurt, Center for Financial Studies (CFS)
(wo)
Frankfurt a. M.
(wann)
2011

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-103360
Letzte Aktualisierung
12.07.2024, 13:23 MESZ

Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Entorf, Horst
  • Knoll, Christian
  • Sattarova, Liliya
  • Goethe University Frankfurt, Center for Financial Studies (CFS)

Entstanden

  • 2011

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