Introducing the euro‐sting: Short‐term indicator of euro area growth
Euro-sting:欧元区增长的短期指标
Abstract We set out a model to compute short‐term forecasts of the euro area GDP growth in real time. To allow for forecast evaluation, we construct a real‐time dataset that changes for each vintage date and includes the exact information that was available at the time of each forecast. With this dataset we show that our simple factor model algorithm, which uses an easy‐to‐replicate methodology, is able to forecast the euro area GDP growth as well as professional forecasters…