Nowcasting unemployment rate and new car sales in south-western Europe with Google Trends

This work presents a study describing the use of Internet search information to achieve improved nowcasting ability with simple autoregressive models, using data from four countries and two different application domains with social and economic significance: unemployment rate and car sales. The resu...

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Main Author: Barreira, Nuno (author)
Other Authors: Godinho, Pedro (author), Melo, Paulo (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10316/44262
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:estudogeral.sib.uc.pt:10316/44262