How useful are consumer surveys as macroeconomic indicators?

Most economic indicators attempt to summarize what happened at a particular time in the past. Consumer surveys, however, examine attitudes and are thus fundamentally different from other widely reported indicators. Some surveys, such as those that measure inflation expectations, have proven to be useful to economists and policymakers, while the evidence is more mixed for others, such as forecasts of consumer spending.Business cycles ; Economic conditions

The national income and product accounts

Macroeconomics

Personal saving behavior and real economic activity

Consumers ; Saving and investment

The cyclical behavior of prices and employee compensation

Monetary theory ; Prices

Forecasts 1985

An abstract for this article is not availableForecasting

Why economic data should be handled with care : the case of the suspiciously slow growth statistic

An abstract for this article is not available.Statistics ; Economic indicators

Forecasts 1983

An abstract for this article is not available.Forecasting

Which price index should a central bank employ?

Banks and banking, Central ; Inflation (Finance)

Two approaches to macroeconomic forecasting

Macroeconomics ; Vector autoregression ; Forecasting

Wage-price restraint and macroeconomic disequilibrium

An abstract for this article is not availableWage-price policy