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This paper discusses identification, specification, estimation and forecasting for a general class of periodic … formulations are introduced for exact maximum likelihood estimation, component estimation and forecasting. Identification issues …
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In this chapter, Lars Osberg and Andrew Sharpe provide an overview of trends in a number of dimensions of economic well-being (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, income equality, and economic security) from the lens of the Index of Economic Well-being, a new composite measure of economic...
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limited to short-term predictions, the value of Google data for forecasting purposes is episodic, and the improvements in … forecasting accuracy are only modest. The results, obtained by (pseudo) out-of-sample forecast comparison, are robust to a state … limitations of using big data to predict economic indicators. …
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data on the forecasting performance of the model is assessed. The Google data is found to yield modest improvements in … forecasting accuracy of the model. To the author’s knowledge, this is the first time the forecasting performance of the Google … mode of the posterior distribution of the hyperparameters, and this is found to improve the out-of-sample forecasting …
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There are over 3 billion searches globally on Google every day. This report examines whether Google search queries can be used to predict the present and the near future unemployment rate in Finland. Predicting the present and the near future is of interest, as the official records of the state...
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In this report we document the ETLAnow project. ETLAnow is a model for forecasting with big data. At the moment, it …
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as benchmark. Finally, we replicate the forecasting experiment including as predictors both an indicator of unemployment …
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in its ability to accurately capture clusters and preserve or enhance forecasting accuracy. For a high …
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, researchers around the world are constantly developing new forecasting models to successfully predict the unemployment rate. This … article presents a new model that combines two deep learning methodologies used for time series forecasting to find the future …
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