What Do the Leading Indicators Lead? (ICPSR 1127)
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James D. Hamilton, University of California at San Diego;
Gabriel Perez-Quiros, University of California at San Diego
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR01127.v1
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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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2000-08-28
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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
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