An examination of Swedish manufacturing data on real output and qualitative business tendency survey (BTS) responses from 1968 through 1998 reveals that survey-based attitude data typically improve the fit of simple autoprojective models of manufacturing output growth. It also turns out that...

In dieser Arbeit wird die Eignung des Instrumentariums der neuronalen Netze, im Konkreten der autoregressiven Neuronale-Netz-Modelle (ARNN), zur Modellierung und Prognose von makroökonomischen Zeitreihen untersucht und mit jenen der autoregressiven (AR) und autoregressiven...

The creation of the Euro area has increased the importance of obtaining timely information about short-term changes in the area's real activity. In this paper we propose a number of alternative short term forecasting models, ranging from simple ARIMA models to more complex cointegrated VAR and...

This paper looks into the 'fine print' of boosting for economic forecasting. By using German industrial production for the period from 1996 to 2014 and a data set consisting of 175 monthly indicators, we evaluate which indicators get selected by the boosting algorithm over time and four...