Should We Trust in Leading Indicators? Evidence from the Recent Recession
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Keywords
Leading Indicators; Forecast Evaluation; Forecast Pooling; Structural Breaks; Frühindikatoren; Prognosegüte; Prognosekombination; Strukturbrüche;JEL classification:
- E37 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
- C22 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes
- C53 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - Forecasting and Prediction Models; Simulation Methods
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