11-080/2 - From First-Release to Ex-Post Fiscal Data: Exploring the Sources of Revision Errors in the EU

• Authors
  Roel Beetsma, University of Amsterdam; Benjamin Bluhm, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany; Massimo Giuliodori, University of Amsterdam; Peter Wierts, De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam
• Publication date
  May 16, 2011

• Keywords
  real-time data, first-release data, ex-post data, fiscal policy, biases, decomposition, base effect, growth effect, denominator effect, fiscal institutions
• JEL
  E6, H6