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

the most relevant recent developments in this field of economic forecasting. To begin with, we analyse the problem of … leading indicator based forecasts, and review the recent literature on the forecasting performance of leading indicators. …

index and to evaluate the role of financial variables in forecasting. We considered two models which allow forecasting based … univariate methods for forecasting inflation at one, three, six, and twelve months and industrial production at one and three … months. We find that financial variables do help forecasting inflation, but do not help forecasting industrial production. …

This Paper proposes a new forecasting method that exploits information from a large panel of time series. The method is …

We provide methods for forecasting variables and predicting turning points in panel Bayesian VARs. We specify a … point and average forecasts are provided. An application to the problem of forecasting the growth rate of output and of … predicting turning points in the G-7 illustrates the approach. A comparison with alternative forecasting methods is also provided. …