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

IFC news and events	page
Overview of past, current and future developments of the IFC	5
A word of thanks to Hans Van Wijk	10
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	270

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