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What Do the Leading Indicators Lead? (ICPSR 1127)
Principal Investigator(s): Hamilton, James D., University of California at San Diego; Perez-Quiros, Gabriel, University of California at San Diego
The authors find that the composite leading index (CLI) is useful for forecasting gross national product (GNP), both in a sample and an out-of-sample real-time exercise. They propose a nonlinear specification in which cyclical shifts of the CLI precede those in GNP. However, the authors find that better forecasts are provided by a simple linear relation between current GNP growth along with an error-correction term corresponding to the previous quarter's logarithmic difference between the level of the CLI and the level of GNP.
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Hamilton, James D., and Gabriel Perez-Quiros. What Do the Leading Indicators Lead?. ICPSR01127-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2000-08-28. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR01127.v1
Persistent URL: http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR01127.v1
This study was funded by:
- National Science Foundation
Scope of Study
Geographic Coverage: United States
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Original ICPSR Release: 2000-08-28
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