With the possible exception of myself, the journal has attracted distinguished managing editors, including my colleagues from the Federal Reserve and my immediate predecessor, Luc Laeven from the European Central Bank. We have the strong support now of 55 sponsoring institutions, including the CBI and the Bank of Canada, which hosted last year's conference.
But surveys suffer from sampling and non-sampling errors. Also economic cycles, particularly  6  BIS central bankers’ speeches  economic slow-down, pose significant challenges to the accuracy of economic indicators, including those that are used as source data for the early GDP estimates.