# Business climate indicators

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## Definition

Assessment of expectations in the economy derived from statistically recorded variables and surveys. Such expectations are of great importance for forward-looking economic policy in general and for central bank policy. - See behavioral finance, consensus economics, survey of professional forecasters, euro breakup index, underlying sentiment, business cycle diagnosis, short-term statistics, crisis foreshadowing, forecast uncertainty, sentiment barometer, trend trading, transmission effect, psychological, leading indicators, two-pillar principle. - Cf. ECB Monthly Bulletin, May 2013, p. 77 (policy article on the reliability of macroeconomic projections; many overviews; references). Attention: The financial encyclopedia is protected by copyright and may only be used for private purposes without express consent! University Professor Dr. Gerhard Merk, Dipl.rer.pol., Dipl.rer.oec. Professor Dr. Eckehard Krah, Dipl.rer.pol. E-mail address: info@ekrah.com https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Ernst_Merk https://www.jung-stilling-gesellschaft.de/merk/ https://www.gerhardmerk.de/

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