Nowcasting unemployment rate and new car sales in south-western Europe with Google Trends

NETNOMICS: Economic Research and Electronic Networking

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 129-165

  Barreira, Nuno ^a   Godinho, Pedro ^b   Melo, Paulo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c INESC COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Car sales; Google Trends; Nowcasting; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889644255     PISSN: 13859587     EISSN: 15737071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11066-013-9082-8     Document Type: Article

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