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Today Economic Tendency Surveys are considered as part of the core economic statistics for a large group of countries. Based on its conformity with growth cycles these statistics have been widely used by Central Banks and market analysts in nowcasting and short-term forecasting. They also contain information not found in other statistics, mostly related to the psychological elements that influence firms’ and consumers’ expectations.
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Campelo, A. (2019). International Tradition of Tendency Surveys. In: Smirnov, S., Ozyildirim, A., Picchetti, P. (eds) Business Cycles in BRICS. Societies and Political Orders in Transition. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90017-9_11
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