Affiliations: [a] Division of Research, University of South Carolina,
Columbia, SC 29208, USA. E-mail: Woodward@darla.badm.sc.edu
| [b] 601 West 113th Street, New York, NY 10025, USA.
E-mail: cgrenfro@modler.com
| [c] Siemens AG, ICN CA CV B14, Otto-Hahn-Ring 6, D-81739
Munich, Germany. E-mail: Ricardo.Cabral@icn.siemens.de
| [d] Universidad do Minho, Escola de Economia e
Gest\~{a}o, Campus de Gualtar, 4710 Braga, Portugal. E-mail:
dcabral@eeg.uminho.pt
Abstract: This paper introduces a special issue of the Journal of Economic and Social
Measurement on U.S. Regional Economic Indicator Models. It describes recent
research on such models, both specifically and in the context of general
research on economic indicators, and provides some references. The six papers of
this special issue represent a selection from the papers presented at a
conference held in Braga, Portugal at the Universidad do Minho 7--10 June 1998,
a purpose of which was to bring together scholars from Europe, North America,
and South America to consider issues in the construction of indicator
models.
