, are relevant to forecasting economic growth and stock returns, and whether they contain information that is orthogonal to …

This paper deals with the estimation of employment equations for Germany, which are to be used for forecasting and …, however, is affected by German reunification and relative factor prices no longer play a significant role. The forecasting …

procedure is illustrated by forecasting the German gross domestic product. …

This study introduces a monthly coincident indicator for consumption in Germany based on Google Trends data on web …

for economic analysis and forecasting. This enormous volume of information, available in real time, can be handled by … analysts thanks to statistical tools such as “Google Insights for Search”, which allow trends in different areas of interest to … inflows to Spain (the Spanish tourist industry's main customers). The improvement in the forecasting provided by the short …

The debate on the forecasting ability in economics of non-linear models has a long history, and the Great Recession … provides us with an opportunity for a re-assessment of the forecasting performance of several classes of non-linear models … some countries and/or variables appear to be more adapted to non-linear forecasting. …