Boysen-Hogrefe, Jens; Neuwirth, Stefan - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
Releases of the GDP are subject to revisions over time. This paper examines the predictability of German GDP revisions … using forecast rationality tests. Previous studies of German GDP covering data until 1997 finds that revisions of real … seasonally adjusted GDP are predictable. This paper uses a newly available real-time data to analyze the revisions of real …