Even before Zvi Griliches’s famous 1985 critique1 – that while economists were increasingly using and even designing surveys, they were broadly uninterested in, and unaware of, the crucial steps of data collection and quality assessment – our surveys had always entailed, first, the close involvement of economic analysts at all stages and second, strong investment in statistical human capital, that is, both theoretical and practical expertise in statistics.
BIS Review 59/2006  3  Securities At the same time, emphasis is being placed on the development of paperless cross-border trading systems and on systems which enhance the security and finality of transactions. In addition, greater efforts are being made to ensure compatibility of systems in order to more efficiently facilitate crosstrading of securities on a regional basis.