Konferenzbeitrag
Economic Sentiment in Europe: Disentangling Private Information from Public Knowledge
This paper addresses a general problem with surveys asking agents for their assessment of the state of the economy: answers are highly dependent on information that is publicly available, while only information that is not already publicly known has the potential to improve a professional forecast. We propose a simple procedure to disentangle the private information of agents from knowledge that is already publicly known (that is common knowledge) for surveys that are structured like that for the European Commission's consumer sentiment indicator. We show that, empirically, this procedure works quite well for some economies, in particular for Germany.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2019: 30 Jahre Mauerfall - Demokratie und Marktwirtschaft - Session: Econometrics - Forecasting I ; No. B07-V2
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
Business Fluctuations; Cycles
Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles: Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
Survey Methods; Sampling Methods
- Thema
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private information
public information
consumer confidence
survey data
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Lindner, Axel
Heinisch, Katja
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Veröffentlichung
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ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
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Kiel, Hamburg
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2019
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ
Datenpartner
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Objekttyp
- Konferenzbeitrag
Beteiligte
- Lindner, Axel
- Heinisch, Katja
- ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
Entstanden
- 2019