This paper examines how economic indicators which are used for policy agreements in SACU explain and can be used to forecast the country member’s Gross Domestic Product. These indicators are the current account balance, the final consumption expenditure, the net trade in goods services and the...

Euro area GDP and components are nowcast and forecast one quarter ahead. Based on a dataset of 163 series comprising the relevant monthly indicators, simple bridge equations with one explanatory variable are estimated for each. The individual forecasts generated by each equation are then pooled,...