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Proceedings of the IFC Conference on "Central Bank Issues Regarding National and Financial Accounts", Basel, September 2004

IFC Bulletin No 20
April 2005

 

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IFC news and events 

Overview of past, current and future developments of the IFC

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A word of thanks to Hans Van Wijk

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Session 2

National accounts statistics: some key issues

R Acx

12

Comparing growth in GDP and labour productivity: measurement issues

Nadim Ahmad, François Lequiller, Pascal Marianna, Dirk Pilat, Paul Schreyer and Anita Wölfl

15

Estimating the output gap in the Polish economy: the VECM approach

Michał Gradzewicz and Marcin Kolasa

24

Estimating capacity utilization from survey data

Norman Morin and John Stevens

42

  

Workshop C

Revisiting recent productivity developments across OECD countries

Les Skoczylas and Bruno Tissot
63

Labour productivity vs. total factor productivity

Ulrich Kohli

106

Measuring total factor productivity for the United Kingdom

harlotta Groth, Maria Gutierrez-Domenech and Sylaja Srinivasan

118

Information technology and productivity changes in the banking industry

Luca Casolaro and Giorgio Gobbi

129

Discussant's summary on Workshop C: Productivity Statistics

Hlabi Morudu

147
   

Workshop D

Estimating output gap for the Turkish economy: A semi-structural non-linear time series approach

Çağrı Sarkaya, Fethi Öğünç, Dilara Ece, Ayşe Tatar Curl, Arzu Çetinkaya

149

Using additional information in estimating the output gap in Peru: a multivariate unobserved component approach

Gonzalo Llosa and Shirley Miller

167

Capital stock in Indonesia: measurement and validity test

Noor Yudanto, Gunawan Wicaksono, Eko Ariantoro and A Reina Sari

183

Comments on the workshop about output gap and capacity

Ahmed Al Kholifey

199

   

Workshop E

Measurement of gross domestic product (GDP) and challenges for the new base year 2003 series: the Chilean case

José Venegas Morales

203

Constructing a composite leading indicator for the Turkish economic activity and forecasting its turning points

Aslıhan Atabek, Evren Erdoğan Coşar and Saygin Şahinöz

222

Real-time data and business cycle analysis in Germany

Jörg Döpke

232

DP flash monthly estimates in DRC

Gerard Mutombo Mule Mule and Marie-Jose Ndaya Ilunga

254

Quality measures for quarterly national accounts and related external statistics

Jorge Diz Dias and Wim Haine; Ingo Kuhnert

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