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Macroeconomic Indicators (macroeconomic + indicator)

Distribution by Scientific Domains
Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting60%
Humanities and Social Sciences40%

Selected Abstracts

Equatorial Guinea: Macroeconomic Indicators

AFRICA RESEARCH BULLETIN: ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL SERIES, Issue 6 2010
Article first published online: 3 AUG 2010
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Debt-Relief Effectiveness and Institution-Building

DEVELOPMENT POLICY REVIEW, Issue 5 2009
Andrea F. Presbitero
This article provides new evidence on the effects of recent debt-relief programmes on different macroeconomic indicators in developing countries, focusing on the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPCs). The relationship between debt relief and institutional change is also investigated to assess whether donors are moving towards ex-post governance conditionality. Results show that debt relief is only weakly associated with subsequent improvements in economic performance but is correlated with increasing domestic debt which undermines the positive achievements in reducing external debt service. There is also evidence that donors are moving towards a more sensible allocation of debt forgiveness, rewarding countries which have better policies and institutions. [source]

The Impact of Interest Rates and The Housing Market on The UK Economy

ECONOMIC OUTLOOK, Issue 2 2004
Adrian Cooper
The Chancellor has asked Professor David Miles to examine the UK market for longer-term fixed rate mortgages. This paper by Adrian Cooper, which is part of a study commissioned by the Miles Review, presents the results of a series of simulations using the OEF Model of the UK economy to investigate the contribution of the housing market to macroeconomic volatility and the implications of changing the structure of mortgage finance from the current variable rate system linked to short-term interest rates to a fixed rate system linked to long rates. The main findings are that the housing market has been a contributor to past volatility in the UK economy, and that moving to a fixed rate structure would reduce the impact of a change in interest rates on key macroeconomic indicators. [source]

A leading indicator approach to predicting short-term shifts in demand for business travel by air to and from the UK

JOURNAL OF FORECASTING, Issue 6 2005
Nenad Njegovan
Abstract This paper uses the probit model to examine whether leading indicator information could be used for the purpose of predicting short-term shifts in demand for business travel by air to and from the UK. Leading indicators considered include measures of business expectations, availability of funds for corporate travel and some well-known macroeconomic indicators. The model performance is evaluated on in- and out-of-sample basis, as well as against a linear leading indicator model, which is used to mimic the current forecasting practice in the air transport industry. The estimated probit model is shown to provide timely predictions of the early 1980s and 1990s industry recessions and is shown to be more accurate than the benchmark linear model. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

How Useful Is the Genuine Savings Rate as a Sustainability Indicator for Regions within Countries?

THE AUSTRALIAN ECONOMIC REVIEW, Issue 4 2005
Australia, Queensland Compared
This article shows how macroeconomic indicators of sustainable development can be applied to the Queensland economy. While recognising the complex and contentious theoretical and practical issues in deriving the Genuine Savings Rate (GSR) to serve as such an indicator, we use the World Bank's methodology, which includes only mineral depletion, deforestation and carbon dioxide emissions as environmental terms, to estimate GSRs for Queensland for the period 1989 to 1999, and compare these to World Bank estimates of Australia's GSR for the same period. We find that Queensland has a higher rate of natural resource depletion and a lower GSR than the whole of Australia. We also examine how well the World Bank GSR performs as a ,headline' measure of overall sustainability, review criticisms of the GSR, and compare its implicit policy implications with those of net state savings, and of the GSR plus a suite of other indicators. [source]