“Nowcasting and forecasting GDP growth with machine-learning sentiment indicators”
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- Oscar Claveria & Enric Monte & Salvador Torra, 2021. ""Nowcasting and forecasting GDP growth with machine-learning sentiment indicators"," IREA Working Papers 202103, University of Barcelona, Research Institute of Applied Economics, revised Feb 2021.
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Forecasting; Economic growth; Business and consumer expectations; Symbolic regression; Evolutionary algorithms; Genetic programming. JEL classification: C51; C55; C63; C83; C93;All these keywords.
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