GIANNONE, Domenico, REICHLIN, Lucrezia, SIMONELLI, Saverio, Nowcasting Euro area economic activity in real-time : the role of confidence indicator, CSEF Working Paper, 2009/240 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/42326
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This paper assesses the role of surveys for the early estimates of GDP in the euro area in a model-based automated procedures which exploits the timeliness of their release. The analysis is conducted using both an historical evaluation and a real time case study on the current conjuncture.