Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/149244 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 6157
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper applies component-wise boosting to the topic of regional economic forecasting. Component-wise boosting is a pre-selection algorithm of indicators for forecasting. By using unique quarterly real gross domestic product data for two German states (the Free State of Saxony and Baden-Wuerttemberg) and Eastern Germany for the period from 1997 to 2013, in combination with a large data set of monthly indicators, we show that boosting is generally doing a very good job in regional economic forecasting. We additionally take a closer look into the algorithm and ask which indicators get selected. All in all, boosting outperforms our benchmark model for all the three regions considered. We also find that indicators that mirror the region-specific economy get frequently selected by the algorithm.
Subjects: 
boosting
regional economic forecasting
gross domestic product
JEL: 
C53
E17
E37
R11
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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