Laine, Olli-Matti; Lindblad, Annika - In: Journal of the Finnish Economic Association : JFEA 2 (2021) 1, pp. 74-108
We analyse the performance of financial market variables in nowcasting Finnish quarterly GDP growth. In particular, we … models that allow us to nowcast quarterly GDP growth using monthly or daily data without temporal aggregation in a … parsimonious way. We find that financial market data nowcasts Finnish GDP growth relatively well: nowcasting performance is similar …