Accurate demand forecasting is important for automotive manufacturing and sales planning because it allows firms to … a novel machine learning-assisted hybrid-input automobile demand forecast model by focusing on the research gaps in … input data, methodology, and the scope of demand forecast. To achieve the research aim, the firm-level forecasting …

businesses to measure firms' expectations about their re-opening and future demand. A plurality of firms in our sample expect to …, including customers and suppliers. Owners expect demand to be one-third lower than before the crisis through autumn. Firms with … more pessimistic expectations about demand predict a later reopening. Using an instrumental variables strategy, we estimate …