Kholodilin, Konstantin A.; Siliverstovs, Boriss - In: Applied Economics Quarterly (formerly: Konjunkturpolitik) 55 (2009) 4, pp. 269-294
The paper evaluates the quality of the German national accounting data (GDP and its useside components) as measured by … the least reliable, whereas real GDP and real private consumption data are the most reliable. In addition, early forecasts … forecasts of all the variables seem to be no more accurate than naïve forecasts based on the historical mean of the final data. …