Benford's Law and Macroeconomic Data Quality /

This paper examines the usefulness of testing the conformity of macroeconomic data with Benford's law as indicator of data quality. Most of the macroeconomic data series tested conform with Benford's law. However, questions emerge on the reliability of such tests as indicators of data qual...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Gonzalez-Garcia, Jesus
مؤلفون آخرون: Pastor Campos, Gonzalo
التنسيق: دورية
اللغة:English
منشور في: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2009.
سلاسل:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2009/010
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:Full text available on IMF