scrutinise the composition of one of the most influential economic indicators in Switzerland. The Purchasing Managers' Index …

the quarterly real GDP growth rate in Switzerland. …

In a pioneering attempt we present the R(ecession)-word index for Switzerland. We evaluate its predictive ability of … ; nowcasting ; real-time data ; Switzerland …

(2012) in a genuine ex ante forecasting exercise. We perform our forecast of GDP growth in Switzerland in real time using …

In this study we suggest a chronology of the classical business cycle in Switzerland. To this end we use two approaches … ; Switzerland …

quarterly GDP growth rate in Switzerland during the period of the recent financial crisis. The key explanation to our findings … estimates of the quarterly GDP growth rate are produced in Switzerland. -- GDP revisions ; forecasting ; mixed-frequency data …

constructed for Germany and Switzerland. We use these indices in order to track the business cycle dynamics in these two countries … Switzerland. Third, we show that the RWI-based forecasts are more accurate than the consensus forecasts (published by Consensus … Economics Inc.) for Switzerland, whereas we reach the opposite conclusion for Germany. In fact, the accuracy of the consensus …