Nowcasting Real GDP Growth: Comparison between Old and New EU Countries

Kocenda, Evzen and Poghosyan, Karen (2020) Nowcasting Real GDP Growth: Comparison between Old and New EU Countries. EASTERN EUROPEAN ECONOMICS, 58 (3). pp. 197-220. ISSN 0012-8775, 1557-9298

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Abstract

We analyze the performance of a broad range of nowcasting and short-term forecasting models for a representative set of twelve old and six new member countries of the European Union (EU) that are characterized by substantial differences in aggregate output variability. In our analysis, we generate ex-post out-of-sample nowcasts and forecasts based on hard and soft indicators that come from a comparable set of identical data. We show that nowcasting works well for the new EU countries because, although that variability in their GDP growth data is larger than that of the old EU economies, the economic significance of nowcasting is on average somewhat larger.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: FACTOR MODEL; MIDAS; INFORMATION; FORECAST; NUMBER; Bayesian VAR; dynamic and static principal components; european OECD countries; factor augmented VAR; nowcasting; real GDP growth; short-term forecasting
Subjects: 300 Social sciences > 330 Economics
Divisions: Central Institutions > Wissenschaftszentrum Ost- und Südosteuropa Regensburg
Depositing User: Dr. Gernot Deinzer
Date Deposited: 30 Mar 2021 07:30
Last Modified: 30 Mar 2021 07:30
URI: https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/45087

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