The global economic recession, referred to as the Great Recession, endured by the main industrialized countries during the period 2008--09, in the wake of the financial and banking crises, has pointed out the current importance of the financial sector in macroeconomics. In this article, we...

Opinion surveys are an important element in the analysis of the short-term economic situation because of the timeliness and nature of the information they convey. The aim of this article is to propose a procedure to nowcast in real-time the fluctuations of the industrial production indices (IPI)...