Anesti, Nikoleta; Kalamara, Eleni; Kapetanios, George - 2021
Regressions and Neural Networks for forecasting GDP growth at monthly frequency for horizons from one month up to two years ahead … Squares models report the largest gains consistently for most of the forecasting horizons, and for the non‑linear machine … more appropriate for longer‑term forecasting. Text based indicators appear to favour more the use of non‑linear models and …