The data reveals that the number of foreign passport-holders resident in Germany had been overestimated.
In other words, they have underestimated earnings more often than they have overestimated them.
They suggest that labour savings (relatively easily measured) are overestimated against less tangible costs.
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It might be because the OBR has overestimated the amount of spare capacity in the economy.
Tullman overestimated how long it would take for the company to integrate with Eclipsys.
The answer is that it seems to have systematically overestimated the value of these contracts.
Remember the Fund overestimated growth in the eurozone this year by a full two percentage points.
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He also admitted, by implication at least, that his analysts had overestimated Saddam's nuclear progress.
Economists and analysts have ignored one brutal reality and continually overestimated the strength of the current recovery.
And, on average, all of them overestimated Labour's lead in the Scottish parliamentary elections by five points.
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There are a number of independent arguments now coming together showing that this value may have been overestimated.
My hunch is the benefits will be overestimated in the short run but underestimated in the long run.
They are failing to increase housebuilding and the government has grossly overestimated its impact, promising much and delivering little.
If the risk of disease is overestimated, it could drive up health costs and cause unnecessary worry, he says.
Maybe he has overestimated the size of his potential audience or their appetite to hand over cash in advance.
In fact, another recent study posted in Science, concluded that polar ice sheet melting has been massively overestimated.
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The researchers admit that knowing they were taking part in a study may have meant teachers overestimated children's problems.
Even in 1997, the polls overestimated Labour's lead, on average, by three points.
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Tullman overestimated the time it would take for the two companies to integrate.
The deviations from the scaling behavior are more pronounced in the first scenario, where also the trends are clearly overestimated.
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Through the 1990s, official scorekeepers continually overestimated the deficit because the economy and stock market performed much better than anticipated.
"The historical significance of 1980s intellectuals can't be overestimated, " he writes in his essay, Intellectuals: An End or a Rebirth?
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Germany is now pointing out that many overestimated German-led back stops, and they were too profligate in spending and running deficits.
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Many a private-equity firm has overestimated the profits to be wrung from buy-outs, and the sovereignty market may be no exception.
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Participants underestimated the number of calls they had made by an average of about 20%, and overestimated call duration by 40%.
Overall, I overestimated the ability of the multi-family industry to go parabolic.
But Chrysler wildly overestimated demand for its vehicles, built too many and had to sharply cut back production in the third quarter.
This is especially true at large corporate firms that overestimated their growth and extended too many offers to associates last fall.
"Frankly, we overestimated its market, " a sheepish Burge admitted after the sale.
Operators may have overestimated their subscriber bases before the current crunch began, but that is true for many other markets as well.
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