We present evidence about the loss of the so-called "plucking effect", that is, a high-growth phase of the cycle typically observed at the end of recessions. This result matches the belief, presented informally by different authors, that recession may have now permanent effects, or recession...

En este documento se propone un marco empírico para medir el grado de debilidad de la economía mundial en tiempo real. Esta metodología se basa en modelos de factores no lineales, que son diseñados para inferir recesiones de magnitudes heterogéneas, y relacionados con las principales...

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En este trabajo se propone una nueva versión ampliada y revisada del modelo Spain-STING (Spain, Short-Term INdicator of Growth), que es una herramienta utilizada por el Banco de España para la previsión a corto plazo del PIB de la economía española. Asimismo, se desarrollan modelos de...

We propose a model to compute short-term forecasts of the Euro area GDP growth in real-time. To allow for forecast evaluation, we construct a real-time data set that changes for each vintage date and includes the exact information that was available at the time of each forecast. In this context,...

One of the most extended empirical stylized facts about output dynamics in the United States is the positive autocorrelation of output growth. This paper shows that the positive autocorrelation can be better captured by shifts between business cycle states rather than by the standard view of...

Incluye bibliografía ; We develop a twofold analysis of how the information provided by several economic indicators can be used in Markov-switching dynamic factor models to identify the business cycle turning points. First, we compare the performance of a fully non-linear multivariate specifi...

Incluye bibliografía ; We examine the finite-sample performance of small versus large scale dynamic factor models. Our Monte Carlo analysis reveals that small scale factor models out-perform large scale models in factor estimation and forecasting for high levels of cross-correlation across the...

We develop a dynamic factor model to compute short term forecasts of the Spanish GDP growth in real time. With this model, we compute a business cycle index which works well as an indicator of the business cycle conditions in Spain. To examine its real time forecasting accuracy, we use real-time...