Foroni, Claudia; Marcellino, Massimiliano; Schumacher, … - 2011
Mixed-data sampling (MIDAS) regressions allow to estimate dynamic equations that explain a low-frequency variable by … high-frequency variables and their lags. When the difference in sampling frequencies between the regressand and the … macroeconomic applications, however, differences in sampling frequencies are often small. In such a case, it might not be necessary …