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A real time coincident indicator of the euro area business cycle

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Filippo Altissimo () (Bank of Italy, Economic Research Department and CEPR)
Antonio Bassanetti () (Bank of Italy, Economic Research Department)
Riccardo Cristadoro () (Bank of Italy, Economic Research Department)
Mario Forni (Università di Modena and CEPR)
Marco Lippi (Università di Roma, La Sapienza and CEPR)
Lucrezia Reichlin () (Université Libre de Bruxelles, ECARES and CEPR)
Giovanni Veronese () (Bank of Italy, Economic Research Department)

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Abstract

This paper is the result of the Bank of Italy-CEPR project to construct a monthly coincident indicator of the business cycle of the euro area. The index is estimated on the basis of a harmonized data set of monthly statistics of the euro area (951 series) which we constructed from a variety of sources. We use the information of this large panel to obtain an indicator which has three characteristics: (i) it provides real time information on monthly coincident activity since it is updated as new information become available in a non-synchronous way; (ii) it is cleaned from noise originated from measurement error and idiosyncratic national and sectoral dynamics; (iii) it is cleaned from seasonal and short-run dynamics through a Þlter that requires very little revision at the end of the sample. Unlike other methods used in the literature, the procedure takes into consideration the cross-country as well as the within-country correlation structure and exploits all information on dynamic cross-correlations. As a byproduct of our analysis, we provide a characterization of the commonality and dynamic relations of the series in the data set with respect to the coincident indicator and a dating of the euro area cycle.

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Paper provided by Bank of Italy, Economic Research Department in its series Temi di discussione (Economic working papers) with number 436.

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Keywords: business cycle; dynamic factor model;

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C51 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - Model Construction and Estimation
E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
O30 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Technological Change - - - General

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