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Confidence and Leading Indicators: Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2020

James Mitchell
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We are all impatient to know what is going on in the economy ‘right now’. But given the delays in the publication of official data, effectively economists are driving looking through the rear-view mirror as they do not know where the economy is until they have driven well past it. The statistical office in the UK (the ONS), for example, publishes quarterly GDP estimates about 27 days after the end of the quarter, and this is relatively quick by international standards.

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National Institute Economic Review , Volume 210 , October 2009 , pp. 61 - 62
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Copyright © 2009 National Institute of Economic and Social Research

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Mitchell, J.(2009), ‘Where are we now? The UK recession and nowcasting’, National Institute Economic Review, 209, pp. 60–9.Google Scholar

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