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Paul Smith

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RePEc Short-ID:psm201

Affiliation

Economics Department
University of Strathclyde

Glasgow, United Kingdom
http://www.strath.ac.uk/Departments/Economics/
RePEc:edi:edstruk (more details at EDIRC)

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Working papers

  1. Smith Paul, 2016. "Nowcasting UK GDP during the depression," Working Papers 1606, University of Strathclyde Business School, Department of Economics.
  2. Grant Allan & Gary Koop & Stuart McIntyre & Paul Smith, 2014. "Nowcasting Scottish GDP Growth," Working Paper series 41_14, Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis.

Articles

  1. Paul Smith, 2016. "Google's MIDAS Touch: Predicting UK Unemployment with Internet Search Data," Journal of Forecasting, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 35(3), pages 263-284, April.

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Working papers

  1. Grant Allan & Gary Koop & Stuart McIntyre & Paul Smith, 2014. "Nowcasting Scottish GDP Growth," Working Paper series 41_14, Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis.

    Cited by:

    1. Edward Knotek & Saeed Zaman, 2020. "Real-time density nowcasts of US inflation: a model-combination approach," Working Papers 2015, University of Strathclyde Business School, Department of Economics.
    2. María Gil & Danilo Leiva-Leon & Javier J. Pérez & Alberto Urtasun, 2019. "An application of dynamic factor models to nowcast regional economic activity in Spain," Occasional Papers 1904, Banco de España.

Articles

  1. Paul Smith, 2016. "Google's MIDAS Touch: Predicting UK Unemployment with Internet Search Data," Journal of Forecasting, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 35(3), pages 263-284, April.

    Cited by:

    1. Schaer, Oliver & Kourentzes, Nikolaos & Fildes, Robert, 2019. "Demand forecasting with user-generated online information," International Journal of Forecasting, Elsevier, vol. 35(1), pages 197-212.
    2. David Kohns & Arnab Bhattacharjee, 2019. "Interpreting Big Data in the Macro Economy: A Bayesian Mixed Frequency Estimator," CEERP Working Paper Series 010, Centre for Energy Economics Research and Policy, Heriot-Watt University.
    3. David G. Blanchflower & Alex Bryson, 2021. "The Economics of Walking About and Predicting Unemployment," NBER Working Papers 29172, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    4. Park, Sungjun & Kim, Jinsoo, 2018. "The effect of interest in renewable energy on US household electricity consumption: An analysis using Google Trends data," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 127(C), pages 1004-1010.
    5. Maas, Benedikt, 2019. "Short-term forecasting of the US unemployment rate," MPRA Paper 94066, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    6. Havranek, Tomas & Zeynalov, Ayaz, 2018. "Forecasting Tourist Arrivals with Google Trends and Mixed Frequency Data," EconStor Preprints 187420, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.
    7. Havranek, Tomas & Zeynalov, Ayaz, 2018. "Forecasting Tourist Arrivals: Google Trends Meets Mixed Frequency Data," MPRA Paper 90205, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    8. Caperna, Giulio & Colagrossi, Marco & Geraci, Andrea & Mazzarella, Gianluca, 2020. "Googling Unemployment During the Pandemic: Inference and Nowcast Using Search Data," Working Papers 2020-04, Joint Research Centre, European Commission.
    9. Chumnumpan, Pattarin & Shi, Xiaohui, 2019. "Understanding new products’ market performance using Google Trends," Australasian marketing journal, Elsevier, vol. 27(2), pages 91-103.
    10. Chong, Terence Tai Leung & Wu, Zhang & Liu, Yuchen, 2019. "Market Reaction to iPhone Rumors," MPRA Paper 92014, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    11. María Gil & Javier J. Pérez & A. Jesús Sánchez & Alberto Urtasun, 2018. "Nowcasting private consumption: traditional indicators, uncertainty measures, credit cards and some internet data," Working Papers 1842, Banco de España.
    12. Caperna, Giulio & Colagrossi, Marco & Geraci, Andrea & Mazzarella, Gianluca, 2022. "A babel of web-searches: Googling unemployment during the pandemic," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 74(C).
    13. Harchaoui, Tarek M. & Janssen, Robert V., 2018. "How can big data enhance the timeliness of official statistics?," International Journal of Forecasting, Elsevier, vol. 34(2), pages 225-234.
    14. David Kohns & Arnab Bhattacharjee, 2020. "Nowcasting Growth using Google Trends Data: A Bayesian Structural Time Series Model," Papers 2011.00938, arXiv.org, revised May 2022.
    15. Vera Z. Eichenauer & Ronald Indergand & Isabel Z. Martínez & Christoph Sax, 2022. "Obtaining consistent time series from Google Trends," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 60(2), pages 694-705, April.
    16. Boone, Tonya & Ganeshan, Ram & Jain, Aditya & Sanders, Nada R., 2019. "Forecasting sales in the supply chain: Consumer analytics in the big data era," International Journal of Forecasting, Elsevier, vol. 35(1), pages 170-180.
    17. Coble, David & Pincheira, Pablo, 2017. "Nowcasting Building Permits with Google Trends," MPRA Paper 76514, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    18. Philip ME Garboden, 2019. "Sources and Types of Big Data for Macroeconomic Forecasting," Working Papers 2019-3, University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization, University of Hawaii at Manoa.
    19. Johannes Bock, 2018. "Quantifying macroeconomic expectations in stock markets using Google Trends," Papers 1805.00268, arXiv.org.
    20. Simionescu, Mihaela & Cifuentes-Faura, Javier, 2022. "Can unemployment forecasts based on Google Trends help government design better policies? An investigation based on Spain and Portugal," Journal of Policy Modeling, Elsevier, vol. 44(1), pages 1-21.
    21. Silvia Emili & Paolo Figini & Andrea Guizzardi, 2020. "Modelling international monthly tourism demand at the micro destination level with climate indicators and web-traffic data," Tourism Economics, , vol. 26(7), pages 1129-1151, November.
    22. Mahmut Gunay, 2020. "Nowcasting Turkish GDP with MIDAS: Role of Functional Form of the Lag Polynomial," Working Papers 2002, Research and Monetary Policy Department, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey.

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