-time out-of-sample forecasting comparison study with one of the most widely used data sets in the newer forecasting literature … for forecasting consumption developments. …

nowcasting and forecasting quarterly world GDP using mixed-frequency models. We find that a recently proposed indicator that …

paper gives a literature overview over existing studies that deal with the forecasting power of various ifo indicators both … powerful tool both for an in-depth business cycle diagnosis and for applied forecasting work. …

sentiment indexes from the texts of the most read economic newspapers in Spain. The data are collected through the scraping of … the Digital Periodical and Newspaper Library website. To compute the sentiment, an existing emotional lexicon for Spanish … words has been customized, allowing for inferring sentiment for words in texts. The resulting indexes are later compared to …

conduct a pseudo out-of-sample forecasting experiment for the monthly growth rate of Bavarian industrial production. We find … conventional indicators in a monthly forecasting experiment. Exploiting the high-frequency nature of the data, we find that the …

to forecasting area-wide industrial production. To this end, we use various tests that are designed to compare competing … loss ; leading indicators ; euro area ; forecasting …