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Browsing by Author "PROIETTI, Tommaso"
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Title:EUROMIND: A monthly indicator of the euro area economic conditions
Author(s):FRALE, Cecilia; MARCELLINO, Massimiliano; MAZZI, Gianluigi; PROIETTI, TommasoDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Continuous monitoring of the evolution of the economy is fundamental for the decisions of public and private decision makers. The paper proposes EUROMIND, which is a new monthly indicator of the euro area economic conditions, ...
Title:Does the Box-Cox Transformation Help in Forecasting Macroeconomic Time Series?
Author(s):PROIETTI, Tommaso; LUETKEPOHL, HelmutDate:2011Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:The paper investigates whether transforming a time series leads to an improvement in forecasting accuracy. The class of transformations that is considered is the Box-Cox power transformation, which applies to series measured ...
Title:Survey Data as Coincident or Leading Indicators
Author(s):FRALE, Cecilia; MARCELLINO, Massimiliano; MAZZI, Gian Luigi; PROIETTI, TommasoDate:2010-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In this paper we propose a monthly measure for the euro area gross domestic product (GDP) based on a small-scale factor model for mixed-frequency data, featuring two factors: the first is driven by hard data, whereas the ...
Title:Survey Data as Coincident or Leading Indicators
Author(s):FRALE, Cecilia; MARCELLINO, Massimiliano; MAZZI, Gian Luigi; PROIETTI, TommasoDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:In this paper we propose a monthly measure for the euro area Gross Domestic
Product (GDP) based on a small scale factor model for mixed frequency data, featuring
two factors: the first is driven by hard data, whereas the ...
Title:A Monthly Indicator of the Euro Area GDP
Author(s):FRALE, Cecilia; MARCELLINO, Massimiliano; MAZZI, Gian Luigi; PROIETTI, TommasoDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:A continuous monitoring of the evolution of the economy is fundamental for the decisions of public and private decision makers. This paper proposes a new monthly indicator of the euro area real Gross Domestic Product (GDP), ...
Title:Dating the EuroArea Business Cycle
Author(s):ARTIS, Michael J.; MARCELLINO, Massimiliano; PROIETTI, TommasoDate:2005Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:Proposes a number of improvements to standard techniques to detect the peaks and troughs of business cycles that allow them to isolate major fluctuations in economic activity. For the US economy their model produces a good ...
Title:Dating the Euro Area Business Cycle
Author(s):ARTIS, Michael J.; MARCELLINO, Massimiliano; PROIETTI, TommasoDate:2002Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECO