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João Veríssimo LISBOA
Universidade de Coimbra
Portugal
Mário Gomes AUGUSTO
Universidade de Coimbra
Portugal
Juan PIÑEIRO-CHOUSA
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Spain
Vol 24 No 2 (2015), Articles, pages 99-110
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15304/rge.24.2.2933
Submitted: 25-11-2015 Accepted: 25-11-2015 Published: 25-11-2015
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Este artigo propón un método diferente para identificar a curto prazo cambios na
actividade económica. Usamos unha perspectiva baseada nas opinións de varios recoñecidos
economistas españois e portugueses sobre a importancia dun grupo de indicadores
individuais aceptados de forma xeral, que poidan avaliar a situación económica. O obxectivo
do artigo é o de determinar a posición económica relativa nun período de tempo a curto e
medio prazo e analizar a importancia da opinión dos economistas para describir a situación
económica. Recolléronse datos trismestrais do período de 1995 a 2014 (1º semestre) das
estadísticas da OECD.StatExtracts para Portugal e España. Os resultados apoian a idea de que
as opinións dos economistas son importantes para explicar as características dunha
economía. Malia que as súas opinións sobre o peso dunha variable determinada na
descrición do nivel de actividade económica pode variar, implicitamente a longo prazo todas
las opinións tenden a converxer nun mesmo patrón de evolución dunha situación económica.
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