used as a component in a nowcasting tool, to assess the impact of a cyclone, based only on its known trajectory, and even … nowcasting, and for post-disaster damage assessment. We focus on Fiji and on its agriculture sector, and on tropical cyclones … be used for both nowcasting and post-disaster damage assessments. …

Common sense tells that historical data are more informative for the estimation of today's nowcasting models when … procedure of GDP nowcasting models, in which observations are weighted based on the similarity with the current economic state … significant nowcasting gains for predicting GDP growth in Belgium as compared to traditional unweighted approaches. …

Accurate real-time macroeconomic data are essential for policy-making and economic nowcasting. In this paper, I … nine macroeconomic aggregates and the 16 German states. I conduct both a revision analysis and a nowcasting experiment …

each other. Nowcasting emerges as a useful methodology for examining up-to-date statistics on labour force participation …

-noise dynamic factor models, commonly used in macroeconomic forecasting and nowcasting. We show analytically and in Monte Carlo … estimation accuracy. Modestly increasing the noise level also accelerates convergence. A nowcasting exercise of euro area GDP …

This paper evaluates whether publicly available daily news lead texts help nowcasting Swiss GDP growth. I collect …-based indicators. In a pseudo out-of-sample nowcasting exercise for Swiss GDP growth, the indicator outperforms a monthly Swiss … business cycle indicator if one month of information is available. Improvements in nowcasting accuracy mainly occur in times of …

investment, which are available at a quarterly frequency. While nowcasting uses data up to (and including) the quarter to be … that taking explicit account of regimes clearly improves nowcasting, and different regimes are important for GDP … certain regimes, like tourist arrivals in the non-recession regime when nowcasting consumption, while other variables are …

expected nonlinear effect of military action challenge the use of established nowcasting and shortterm forecasting …