2 papers
econ.EM2020
Measuring Macroeconomic Uncertainty: The Labor Channel of Uncertainty from a Cross-Country Perspective
Andreas Dibiasi, Samad Sarferaz
This paper constructs internationally consistent measures of macroeconomic uncertainty. Our econometric framework extracts uncertainty from revisions in data obtained from standard…
econ.EM2018
Can GDP measurement be further improved? Data revision and reconciliation
Jan P. A. M. Jacobs, Samad Sarferaz, Jan-Egbert Sturm +1
Recent years have seen many attempts to combine expenditure-side estimates of U.S. real output (GDE) growth with income-side estimates (GDI) to improve estimates of real GDP growth…