Estimating Indexes of Coincident and Leading Indicators: An Application to Jordan

By Joannes Mongardini, Tahsin Saadi Sedik

August 1, 2003

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Joannes Mongardini, and Tahsin Saadi Sedik. Estimating Indexes of Coincident and Leading Indicators: An Application to Jordan, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2003) accessed September 19, 2024

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Summary

The analysis of coincident and leading indicators can help policymakers gauge the short-term direction of economic activity. While such analysis is well established in advanced economies, it has received relatively little attention in many emerging market and developing economies, reflecting in part the lack of sufficient historical data to determine the reliability of these indicators. This paper presents an econometric approach to deriving composite indexes of coincident and leading indicators for a small open economy, Jordan. The results show that, even with limited monthly observations, it is possible to establish meaningful economic and statistically significant relations between indicators from different sectors of the economy and the present and future direction of economic activity.

Subject: Business cycles, Cyclical indicators, Economic growth, Emerging and frontier financial markets, Financial markets, Industrial production, Production, Production index

Keywords: Adjusted leading indicators, Business cycles, Coincident indicators, Composite index, Composite index of leading economic indicators, Composite indexes of coincident and leading economic indicators, Confidence interval, Cyclical indicators, Economic activity, Emerging and frontier financial markets, Global, Industrial production, Jordan, Jordanian dinar, Leading indicator, Leading indicators, Leading indicators of economic activity, OECD methodology, Production index, Share price, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

32
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Working Paper No. 2003/170
Stock No:

WPIEA1702003
ISBN:

9781451858440
ISSN:

1018-5941

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