CIRET (Centre for International Research on Economic Tendency Surveys) is a forum for leading economists and institutions concerned with analysing and predicting the development of the business cycle and the economic and socio-political consequences. At the same time they also consider the outcome of economic tendency surveys which usually contain questions relating to quality. Economic research institutes, universities, central banks as well as companies and associations are addressed in addition to economists. Hence, a distinction is made between two categories of members: individual members and corporate members