Presentation at 1st Macroeconomic Forecasting Conference, ISAE, Rome. Conference co-hosted by ISAE, INSEE and IFO

This papers identifies the information content at the firm-level of qualitative business survey data by first examining the consistency between these data and the quantitative data provided by the same respondents to the UK's ONS in official surveys. Since the qualitative data are published...

Mortality rates computed from data reported in the British Household Panel Survey are lower than those computed from registration of deaths; the main source of this error is likely to be a failure to distinguish non-response due to unreported death from other forms of non-response. Here we model...

Seminar organised as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2008. Confederation of British Industry, London (10 March 2008)

Statistical and Economic Workshop, ONS, Newport (27th October 2009)

6th Eurostat Colloquium on Modern Tools for Business Cycle Analysis, Eurostat, European Commission, Luxembourg

The 10th Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data & COST Conference 2010, Imperial College

Presented at the Money, Macro and Finance Group 40th Annual Conference, Birkbeck College, London University (10-12 September 2008); Bank of England seminar (14 November 2008)

This paper assesses the utility of qualitative expectational survey data at the firm-level in terms of both their ability to anticipate firms' subsequent retrospective, but qualitative, reports of their performance but also these same firms' quantitative answers. The assessment requires access...

Presented at Royal Economic Society Annual Conference 2009, University of Surrey