No: Revisions to first estimates of quarterly state-level GDP growth tend to be biased, large, and/or predictable using …

revised. Implicitly, the possibility of data revisions creates an element of uncertainty around the very same data driving … policy decisions. Given that such uncertainty could be mitigated if data revisions were predictable, this paper sets out to … identify any systematic patterns in the Maltese 'Real GDP' data and underlying revisions which could in turn prove useful when …

revised. Implicitly, the possibility of data revisions creates an element of uncertainty around the very same data driving … policy decisions. Given that such uncertainty could be mitigated if data revisions were predictable, this paper sets out to … identify any systematic patterns in the Maltese 'Real GDP' data and underlying revisions which could in turn prove useful when …