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Total demand for vehicles at each time step and for each country is calculated using calibrated parameters, the initial 1995 demand [35], GDP ratio (the current GDP per capita relative to the initial GDP per capita [36, 37]) and household ratio (the current number of households relative to the initial number of households (calculated from population [36, 38] and household size [36])).
Michael Dicks, an economist at Lehman Brothers, an investment bank, believes that the official data are greatly understating the true rate of growth, however, much as they did during the 1980s boom.Mr Dicks has identified several good leading indicators which (with hindsight) pointed to later upward revisions to the initial GDP data.
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Growth rate of GDP per caput : World Bank National Accounts; initial GDP per caput: Summers and Heston (1991); DES per caput and PFI : The Sixth World Food Survey (Rome: FAO, 1996).
The release of Monday's revised official data follows publication of initial GDP estimates that put the second quarter contraction at 1.7%, with the annualised rate at 6.8%.
Initial GDP estimates for the fourth quarter are due on January 29th, and many analysts expect annualised GDP growth to have shot up to 5.5% or more.
Furthermore, initial GDP growth estimates are generally revised up over the course of the following three years by a tenth of a percentage point.There are still strong forces sustaining the recovery.
Initial GDP figures for that quarter showed that the American economy was still expanding, but they were later revised to show there had been a small contraction.If the R-word were a lagging indicator, simply occurring more often when bad economic statistics are reported, it would be of little value.
Initial GDP estimates are based on partial information; missing data has to be based on the recent past.
This is because initial GDP numbers include estimates for some components of GDP that are derived by extrapolating recent trends (ie, from a period when the economy was growing faster).
According to initial GDP estimates released on April 30th, output grew at an annualised rate of 0.6% in the first three months of the year the same pace as in the previous quarter and faster than most people expected.
Adjusting for a country's initial GDP (since it is easier to grow fast when you start at a low level), the differences in long-run growth rates are mainly accounted for by differences in cognitive skills as measured by these international tests.
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