When are Google Data Useful to Nowcast GDP? An Approach via Preselection and Shrinkage
Google 数据何时有助于 GDP 即时预测?预筛选与收缩方法
Alternative datasets are widely used for macroeconomic nowcasting together with machine learning–based tools. The latter are often applied without a complete picture of their theoretical nowcasting properties. Against this background, this article proposes a theoretically grounded nowcasting methodology that allows researchers to incorporate alternative Google Search Data (GSD) among the predictors and that combines targeted preselection, Ridge regularization, and…