Andreou, Elena; Ghysels, Eric; Kourtellos, Andros - In: Journal of Business & Economic Statistics 31 (2013) 2, pp. 240-251
We introduce easy-to-implement, regression-based methods for predicting quarterly real economic activity that use daily financial data and rely on forecast combinations of mixed data sampling (MIDAS) regressions. We also extract a novel small set of daily financial factors from a large panel of...