The share of private consumption in gross domestic product is significant; therefore, private consumption has a great influence on economic growth, which makes it a major concept in economics. The purpose of the paper is to estimate and evaluate different forecasting models for private...

Suurten volyymien vuoksi valuuttakauppojen selvitysriskit ovat kasvaneet niin huomattaviksi, että ne aiheuttavat huolta kansainvälisten rahoitusmarkkinoiden vakaudesta.Uhkakuvana on, että valuutta-markkinoilla jonkin osapuolen tai joidenkin osapuolten maksuongelmista alkanut tilanne saattaa...

There are over 3 billion searches globally on Google every day. This report examines whether Google search queries can be used to predict the present and the near future unemployment rate in Finland. Predicting the present and the near future is of interest, as the official records of the state...

This report examines whether Google search queries can be used to predict the present and the near future house prices in Finland. Compared to a simple benchmark model, Google searches improve the prediction of the present house price index by 7.5 % measured by mean absolute error. In addition,...