Real-Time Data for Norway: Challenges for Monetary Policy

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Tom Bernhardsen

Norges Bank

Oyvind Eitrheim

Norges Bank - Research Department

Anne Sofie Jore

Norges Bank

Øistein Røisland

Norges Bank - Department of Economics

Date Written: 2004

Abstract

National accounts data are always revised. Not only recent data, but also figures dating many years back can be revised substantially. This means that there is a danger that an important part of the central bank's information set is flawed for a long period of time. In this paper we present a data base consisting of various vintages of real-time data from 1993Q1 to 2003Q4. We describe the nature of the data revisions, the causes of the revisions, and investigate whether the revisions are true martingale differences, or whether they can be forecasted. In the spirit of Orphanides and van Norden (2002), we analyze how data revisions and model uncertainty affect the reliability of output gap estimates. We also compare Taylor type interest rate rules based on real-time data versus final data and assess the consequences for monetary policy if policy was conducted using this type of interest rate rules. Finally, we analyze the implications of output gap uncertainty for monetary policy using a small New Keynesian macroeconomic model.

Keywords: Monetary policy, output gap, real-time data, interest rate rules

JEL Classification: E37, C53, E52

Suggested Citation

Bernhardsen, Tom and Eitrheim, Oyvind and Jore, Anne Sofie and Røisland, Øistein, Real-Time Data for Norway: Challenges for Monetary Policy (2004). Bundesbank Series 1 Discussion Paper No. 2004,26, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2785071 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2785071

Tom Bernhardsen (Contact Author)

Norges Bank

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Oyvind Eitrheim

Norges Bank - Research Department ( email )

P.O. Box 1179
Oslo, N-0107
Norway

Anne Sofie Jore

Norges Bank ( email )

P.O. Box 1179
Oslo, N-0107
Norway

Øistein Røisland

Norges Bank - Department of Economics ( email )

P.O. Box 1179
Oslo, N-0107
Norway
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+47 22 31 60 50 (Fax)

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