short-term forecasting models. These empirical findings have been established for different macroeconomic data sets and … specification is most effective in its forecasting performance. Furthermore, the forecast performances of the different … extended empirical out-of-sample forecasting competition for quarterly growth of gross domestic product in the euro area and …

We explore a new approach to the forecasting of macroeconomic variables based on a dynamic factor state space analysis … forecasting purposes. Given a dynamic factor model as the data generation process, we provide Monte Carlo evidence for the finite … unbalanced panel contain quarterly and monthly variables. The forecasting accuracy is measured against a set of benchmark models …