series forecasting models for economic variables. In these models, the reduction of the predictors and the modeling and … forecasting of the response y are carried out in two separate and independent phases. We introduce a potentially more attractive … of widely used macroeconomic series data with one or two sufficient reductions delivering similar forecasting performance …

higher frequency auxiliary data only for forecasting (see Giannone, Monti and Reichlin (2016)). The second method transforms … our method substantially decreases forecasting errors for recessions, but casting the model in a monthly frequency …