GDP Forecasting using Payments Transaction Data
利用支付交易数据预测 GDP
UK GDP data is published with a lag time of more than a month and it is often adjusted for prior periods. This paper contemplates breaking away from the historic GDP measure to a more dynamic method using Bank Account, Cheque and Credit Card payment transactions as possible predictors for faster and real time measure of GDP value. Historic timeseries data available from various public domain for various payment types, values, volume and nominal UK GDP was used for this…