Use of Survey Data for Industry, Research and Economic Policy Selected Papers Presented at the 24th Ciret Conference, Wellington, New Zealand, 1999

Marlene Amstad, Research Economist, Swiss Institute for Business Cycle Research, Zurich, Switzerland. Anirvan Banerji, Co-director of the Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI) headed by Geoffrey H. Moore, New York, USA. Elena Belyanova, Director of the Moscow branch of the Netherlands Economic Institute/IMEMO, Moscow, Russia. Pierre Beziz, Administrator, Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Statistics Directorate, Paris, France. Phillip Briggs, Head of the quantitative division, New Zealand Institute of Economic Research, Wellington, New Zealand. Robert A. Buckle, Associate Professor of Economics and Head of the School of Economics and Finance, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand. John A. Carlson, Loeb Professor of Economics at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA. Paolo Carnazza, Head of unit 'Business and Consumer Surveys', Institute for Studies and Economic Analyses (ISAE), Rome, Italy. Philip Chen, Senior Economist, Foundation for International Business and Economic Research, New York, USA. Marcella Corsi, Associate Professor of Economics, Liberal Universita Internazionale degli Studi Sociali 'G. Carli', Rome, Italy. Pierre Crevits, Assistant Advisor Short Term Indicators, National Bank of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium Enrico D'Elia, Senior Economist, Price Survey Unit of the Italian National Institute of Statistics, Rome, Italy. Yves de Lombaerde, Assistant Quarterly National Accounts, National Bank of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium Phoebus Dhrymes, Jr., Research Associate, Foundation for International Business and Economic Research, New York, USA. Assunta Draicchio, Research, Survey Unit of the Institute for Studies and Economic Analyses (ISAE), Rome, Italy. Luc Dresse, Assistant Advisor, Research Department, National Accounts and Business Surveys Cell, National Bank of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium. Maria Drozdowicz-Biec, Senior Research Associate, Foundation for International Business and Economic Research, New York, and Research Institute of Economic Development at the Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland. Matthew Hassan, Economist, New Zealand Institute of Economic Research, Wellington, New Zealand. David Haugh, Analyst, Budget Management Branch, The New Zealand Treasury, Wellington, New Zealand. Harald A. Haupt, Research Assistant, Department of Economics and Econometrics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany. Miklos Hegedus, Managing Director, GKI Economic Research Company, Budapest, Hungary. Lorene Hiris, Associate Professor of Finance, C. W. Post Campus of Long Island University in New York and Senior Research Scholar at the Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI), New York, USA. Michel Houdebine, Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques (INSEE), Paris, France. Bengi Kibritcioglu, Assistant Expert of Treasury, Prime Ministry, The Undersecretariat of Treasury, General Directorate of Economic Research, Ankara, Turkey. Franz-Josef Klein, Head of Unit 'Business Surveys and Publications', European Commission, Brussels, Directorate General 'Economic and Financial Affairs', Brussels, Belgium. Philip A. Klein, Professor of Economics, Penn State University, Philadelphia, and Senior Research Scholar, Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI), New York, USA. Yasuyuki Komaki, Senior Economist, Nippon Life Insurance Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan. Bulent Kose, Expert of Treasury, Prime Ministry, The Undersecretariat of Treasury, General Directorate of Economic Research, Ankara, Turkey. Jurg Dieter Lindlbauer, Senior Researcher, Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich, Germany. Bianca Maria Martelli, Researcher, Survey Unit of the Institute for Studies and Economic Analyses (ISAE), Rome, Italy. Zbigniew Matkowski, Senior Lecturer, Warsaw School of Economics and Professor of Economics, B. Janski School of Management and Business, Warsaw, Poland. Gernot Nerb, Head of Survey Research, Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich, Germany. Serguei Nikolaenko, Principal Analyst, Bureau of Economic Analysis, IMEMO, Moscow, Russia. Karl Heinrich Oppenlander, Professor of Economics, former President of Ifo Institute, Munich, Germany. Gabor Papanek, Managing Director, GKI Economic Research Company, Budapest, Hungary. Raymund Petz, Research Manager, GKI Economic Research Company, Budapest, Hungary. Gunter Poser, Professor of Economics, Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany. Ricardo Reyes-Araiza, Deputy-Manager of the Productive Sector, Banco de Mexico, Mexico. Paul Rodway, Manager, Tax Forecasting and Modelling Group, The New Zealand Treasury, Wellington, New Zealand. Bernd Schips, Professor of Economics, ETH-Zurich, Director of the Swiss Institute for Business Cycle Research, Zurich, Switzerland. Johan G. J. Snyman, Director of Medium-Term Forecasting Associates, Building Economists, Stellenbosch, South Africa. Doug Steel, Economist, New Zealand Institute of Economic Research, Wellington, New Zealand. Kurt Stock, Research Fellow, Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich, Germany. Alex Sundakov, Director of the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research, Wellington, New Zealand. Kari Takala, Economist, Economics Department, Bank of Finland, Helsinki, Finland. Jukka Topi, Economist, Financial Markets Department of the Bank of Finland, Helsinki, Finland. Giuseppe Travaglini, Researcher, University of Urbino, Urbino, Italy. Sergey Tsukhlo, Head of Business Survey Department, Institute for the Economy in Transition, Moscow, Russia. Pekka Tsupari, Head of department, Confederation of Finnish Industry and Employers, Helsinki, Finland. Gamze Ugur, Expert of Treasury, Prime Ministry, The Undersecretariat of Treasury, General Directorate of Economic Research, Ankara, Turkey. Yvonne M. van Everdingen, Assistant Professor of Marketing Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. George van Gastel, Head of the division 'Business tendency surveys and short term indicators' at the National Bank of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium. Jean-Jacques Vanhaelen, Advisor, Research Department, National Accounts and Business Surveys Cell, National Bank of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium. W. Fred van Raaij, Professor of Marketing Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Sandra M. Waller, Research assistant to the executive board, Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich, Germany. Thomas M. F. Yeh, Secretary-General of the Council for Economic Planning and Development of the Republic of China, Taipei, Republic of China. Victor Zarnowitz, Professor Emeritus of Economics and Finance at the University of Chicago, and Research Director of the Foundation for International Business and Economic Research (FIBER) in New York, USA.Schips, Bernd is the author of 'Use of Survey Data for Industry, Research and Economic Policy Selected Papers Presented at the 24th Ciret Conference, Wellington, New Zealand, 1999', published 2000 under ISBN 9780754613497 and ISBN 0754613496.