Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/152710 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 276
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
The first official data releases of quarterly real GDP for the euro area are published about eight weeks after the end of the reference quarters. Meanwhile, ongoing economic developments must be assessed from various, more readily available, monthly indicators. We examine in the context of univariate forecasting equations to what extent monthly indicators provide useful information for predicting euro area real GDP growth over the current and the next quarter. In particular, we investigate the performance of the equations under the case that the monthly indicators are only partially available within the quarter. For this purpose, we use time series models to forecast the missing observations of monthly indicators. We then examine GDP forecasts under different amounts of monthly information. We find that already a limited amount of monthly information improves the predictions for current-quarter GDP growth to a considerable extent, compared with ARIMA forecasts.
Subjects: 
bridge equations
Conjunctural analysis
incomplete monthly information
JEL: 
C22
C53
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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