Capturing Swiss economic confidence

Abstract Survey data can offer timely information on the current state of the economy and its short-term outlook. In this paper, we propose a “Swiss Economic Confidence Index” (SEC). This is a monthly indicator based on aggregating a selection of individual survey indicators, which we show to have f...

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Main Authors: Philipp Wegmueller, Christian Glocker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2024-02-01
Series:Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s41937-024-00120-7