01488cas a2200253 a 4500 AALejournalIMF008881 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451844986 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Davis, E. The Use of Financial Spreads As Indicator Variables : Evidence for the U.K. and Germany / E. Davis, S. Henry. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1994. 1 online resource (28 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students There has been growing interest in the use of financial spreads as advance indicators of real activity and inflation. Empirical evidence is marshalled on a range of spreads when these are used in vector autoregressive models of the UK and German economies. It is found that they do have significant information, even after allowing for the effects of other influences upon macro-economic activity. Mode of access: Internet Henry, S. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1994/031 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/1994/031/001.1994.issue-031-en.xml IMF e-Library