New Indicators for Tracking Growth in Real Time /
We develop monthly indicators for tracking growth in 32 advanced and emerging-market economies. We test the historical performance of our indicators and find that they do a good job at describing the business cycle. In a recursive out-of-sample forecasting exercise, we find that the indicators gener...
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| Natura: | Periodico |
| Lingua: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
International Monetary Fund,
2011.
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| Serie: | IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ;
No. 2011/043 |
| Accesso online: | Full text available on IMF |
| Riassunto: | We develop monthly indicators for tracking growth in 32 advanced and emerging-market economies. We test the historical performance of our indicators and find that they do a good job at describing the business cycle. In a recursive out-of-sample forecasting exercise, we find that the indicators generally produce good GDP growth forecasts relative to a range of time series models. |
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| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (22 pages) |
| Natura: | Mode of access: Internet |
| ISSN: | 1018-5941 |
| Accesso: | Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students |