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Federal Budget Forecasting
What a difference just a few months can make in the world of federal government finance. Apparently, weak commodity prices and a slowing economy are playing such havoc with government finances that Thursday’s federal budget will show a downward revision of economic growth forecasts as well as a shortfall in revenue that will be addressed […]
Chalk Up Another for the Economics of Google Searches
The Google search engine continues to demonstrate its use as a tool for predicting human behaviour and activity based on the frequency of topics searched by its users. Google data has been used to track flu activity and even fertility behaviour. A Banca D’Italia November 2012 working paper by Francesco D’Amuri and Juri Marcucci is […]
Economic Forecasting: Is Google Trends the Future?
Google Trends is a quick and popular way to assess the importance of ideas, events and trends by looking at the results of people’s web searches. In fact, as is well known, it has been used to study flu activity based on searches for flu related terms. And, right here on WCI, it has been […]
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