Nowcasting: The real-time informational content of macroeconomic data

Journal of Monetary Economics

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 665-676

  Giannone, Domenico ^a   Reichlin, Lucrezia ^a   Small, David ^b  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK   (Germany)

^b Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System   (Germany)

Author keywords

Factor model; Forecasting; Monetary policy; Nowcast; Real time data

Indexed keywords

EID: 46949109976     PISSN: 03043932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2008.05.010     Document Type: Article

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