-on-quarter growth rate in Switzerland. It also assesses the informational content of macroeconomic data releases for forecasting of the … for GDP forecasting, although their ranking depends on the underlying transformation of monthly indicators from which the …

regression used in Bai and Ng (2008), called the elastic net (Zou and Hastie, 2005). We illustrate our approach by forecasting …

model forecast should become the benchmark for forecasting horse races. We compare the real-time forecasting accuracy of the … forecasting models is efficient. Our second finding is that there is no single best forecasting method. For example, typically … simple AR models are most accurate at short horizons and DSGE models are most accurate at long horizons when forecasting …

In recent years some paers have been bublished that deal with the forecasting performance of indicators for the German …

. The results of a real-time forecasting exercise suggest the model performs well in comparison to the consensus forecasts …-time GDP forecasts for Japan, aiming at increasing knowledge regarding Japan’s GDP forecasting. …

The term now-casting is a contraction for now and forecasting and has been used for a long-time in meteorology and …

best overall performance both in terms of forecasting accuracy and in matching (future) survey forecasts. …