Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/50326 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
KOF Working Papers No. 249
Publisher: 
ETH Zurich, KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Zurich
Abstract: 
We investigate whether the KOF Barometer - a leading indicator regularly released by the KOF Swiss Economic Institute - can be useful for short-term out-of-sample prediction of year-on-year quarterly real GDP growth rates in Switzerland. We find that the KOF Barometer appears to be useful for prediction of GDP growth rates. Even the earliest forecasts, made seven months ahead of the first official GDP estimate, allow us to predict GDP growth rates more accurately than forecasts based on an univariate autoregressive model. At every subsequent forecast round as new monthly releases of the KOF Barometer become available we observe a steady increase in forecast accuracy.
Subjects: 
Leading indicators
forecasting
Bayesian model averaging
Switzerland
JEL: 
C53
C22
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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