Artículo de revista ; El seguimiento de la situación económica regional adquiere particular importancia en países altamente descentralizados, como España. En este contexto, el presente artículo resume los aspectos más relevantes del modelo BayFaR (Bayesian Factor model for Regions), una...

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We propose a model to compute short-term forecasts of the Euro area GDP growth in real-time. To allow for forecast evaluation, we construct a real-time data set that changes for each vintage date and includes the exact information that was available at the time of each forecast. In this context,...

We show that an extension of the Markov-switching dynamic factor models that accounts for the speci cities of the day to day monitoring of economic developments such as ragged edges, mixed frequencies and data revisions is a good tool to forecast the Euro area recessions in real time. We provide...

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We incorporate external information extracted from the European Central Bank’s Survey of Professional Forecasters into the predictions of a Bayesian VAR, using entropic tilting and soft conditioning. The resulting conditional forecasts signifi cantly improve the plain BVAR point and density...

Este artículo desarrolla un indicador novedoso del ciclo de comercio mundial (WTI) mediante un modelo de factores dinámicos, con el objetivo de predecir el crecimiento del comercio mundial de bienes y servicios (generalmente, obviados) en el corto plazo. La selección de indicadores de...

One of the most extended empirical stylized facts about output dynamics in the United States is the positive autocorrelation of output growth. This paper shows that the positive autocorrelation can be better captured by shifts between business cycle states rather than by the standard view of...