We analyse the performance of financial market variables in nowcasting Finnish quarterly GDP growth. In particular, we … parsimonious way. We find that financial market data nowcasts Finnish GDP growth relatively well: nowcasting performance is similar … assess if prediction accuracy is affected by the sampling frequency of the financial variables. Therefore, we apply MIDAS …

We analyse the performance of financial market variables in nowcasting Finnish quarterly GDP growth. Especially, we … assess if prediction accuracy is affected by the sampling frequency of the financial variables. Therefore, we apply MIDAS … models that allow us to forecast quarterly GDP growth using monthly or daily data without temporal aggregation in a …

This paper focuses on identifying useful indicators for nowcasting GDP in Sweden. We analyze 35 monthly indicators … is conducted using mixed-data sampling (MIDAS) and mixed-frequency VAR models in both individual and pooled setups for … nowcasting. While the primary focus is on nowcasting, we also assess the performance of the indicators for backcasting and …

taking into account the supply or production side and the demand side of GDP. The GDP figures calculated by the two sides … usually yield different results and the official GDP release is somewhere in between. We make use of this statistical … procedure by separately modeling the two sides of GDP in a system of bridge equations at the most disaggregate level available …

well as cheques that clear through the banking system, as potential indicators of current GDP growth. These variables … macroeconomic forecasting. Controlling for the release dates of each of a set of indicators, we generated nowcasts of GDP growth for …

, labour, expectations, transport, financial data. We address the problem of Nowcasting of the growth rate of Slovak real GDP …The paper compares two forecasts of Slovak GDP, the first with high-frequency data and the second without them. We … utilize the last observation from the economic activity index acting as a short-term GDP forecast. We use data from 2000 to …

crises have persistent effects on GDP. We find the present value of output losses to be around 84 percent. A reduction in the … GDP. Based on Danish data and using models for the Danish economy, we thus confirm findings in studies for other economies …