Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/153185 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 751
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
We derive forecast weights and uncertainty measures for assessing the role of individual series in a dynamic factor model (DFM) to forecast euro area GDP from monthly indicators. The use of the Kalman filter allows us to deal with publication lags when calculating the above measures. We find that surveys and financial data contain important information beyond the monthly real activity measures for the GDP forecasts. However, this is discovered only, if their more timely publication is properly taken into account. Differences in publication lags play a very important role and should be considered in forecast evaluation.
Subjects: 
Dynamic Factor Models
filter weights
forecasting
JEL: 
E37
C53
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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