Nowcasting Annual National Accounts with Quarterly Indicators : An Assessment of Widely Used Benchmarking Methods /

Benchmarking methods can be used to extrapolate (or 'nowcast') low-frequency benchmarks on the basis of available high-frequency indicators. Quarterly national accounts are a typical example, where a number of monthly and quarterly indicators of economic activity are used to calculate prel...

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Hlavní autor: Marini, Marco
Médium: Časopis
Jazyk:English
Vydáno: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2016.
Edice:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2016/071
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