The use of large datasets for macroeconomic forecasting has received a great deal of interest recently. Boosting is one possible method of using high-dimensional data for this purpose. It is a stage-wise additive modelling procedure, which, in a linear specification, becomes a variable selection...

The use of large datasets for macroeconomic forecasting has received a great deal of interest recently. Boosting is one possible method of using high-dimensional data for this purpose. It is a stage-wise additive modelling procedure, which, in a linear specification, becomes a variable selection...

The use of large datasets for macroeconomic forecasting has received a great deal of interest recently. Boosting is one possible method of using high-dimensional data for this purpose. It is a stage-wise additive modelling procedure, which, in a linear specification, becomes a variable selection...

Die deutsche Wirtschaft hat sich im Verlauf des vergangenen Jahres 2010 deutlich erholt. Sowohl von der Auslands- als auch der Inlandsnachfrage kamen kräftige Impulse. Im Jahresdurchschnitt stieg das Bruttoinlandsprodukt um 3,7 %, im Jahresverlauf sogar um 4,2 %. Mit einer Fortsetzung dieser...