Nowcasting Euro Area economic activity in real time: The role of confidence indicators

National Institute Economic Review

Volumn 210, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 90-97

  Giannone, Domenico ^a   Reichlin, Lucrezia ^b   Simonelli, Saverio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Factor model; Forecasting; Large data sets; Real time data; Survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350645358     PISSN: 00279501     EISSN: 17413036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0027950109354413     Document Type: Article

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