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http://dx.doi.org/10.5351/KJAS.2010.23.1.063

The Analysis of Factors which Affect Business Survey Index Using Regression Trees  

Chang, Young-Jae (Research Department, The Bank of Korea)
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The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics / v.23, no.1, 2010 , pp. 63-71 More about this Journal
Abstract
Business entrepreneurs reflect their views of domestic and foreign economic activities on their operation for the growth of their business. The decision, forecasting, and planning based on their economic sentiment affect business operation such as production, investment, and hiring and consequently affect condition of national economy. Business survey index(BSI) is compiled to get the information of business entrepreneurs' economic sentiment for the analysis of business condition. BSI has been used as an important variable in the short-term forecasting models for business cycle analysis, especially during the the period of extreme business fluctuations. Recent financial crisis has arised extreme business fluctuations similar to those caused by currency crisis at the end of 1997, and brought back the importance of BSI as a variable for the economic forecasting. In this paper, the meaning of BSI as an economic sentiment index is reviewed and a GUIDE regression tree is constructed to find out the factors which affect on BSI. The result shows that the variables related to the stability of financial market such as kospi index(Korea composite stock price index) and exchange rate as well as manufacturing operation ratio and consumer goods sales are main factors which affect business entrepreneurs' economic sentiment.
Keywords
Business survey index; economic sentiment index; economic forecasting; regression tree;
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