Das vorliegende Handbuch soll einen Überblick über die Befragungen des ifo Instituts
sowie die daraus resultierenden Konjunkturindikatoren und deren Verwendung für die …

Abstract The ifo Institute is Germany's largest business survey provider, with the ifo Business
Climate Germany as one of the most important leading indicators for gross domestic product …

As one of the main pillars of the ifo Institute's economic research, the ifo Business Survey
has been conducted monthly since 1949, a year after the foundation of the ifo Institute. Since …

Economic forecasts are an important element of rational economic policy both on the federal
and on the local or regional level. Solid budgetary plans for government expenditures and …

Accurate real-time macroeconomic data are essential for policy-making and economic
nowcasting. The rising interest in analyses at the sub-national level cannot be served as …

In this paper, we study the predictive power of electricity consumption data for regional
economic activity. Using unique high‐frequency electricity consumption data from industrial …

To date, only annual information on economic activity is published for the 16 German states.
In this paper, we calculate quarterly regional GDP estimates for the period between 1995 to …

This paper aims to elaborate a treated data set and apply the boosting methodology to
monthly Brazilian macroeconomic variables to check its predictability. The forecasting …

This paper seeks to test the component-wise boosting validity as an instrument of
forecasting regional series in economic recessions. We use 822 predictors to forecast the …

For the purpose of enhancing the prediction accuracy of trade economic cost under
increasingly complex environment, genetic optimization LVQ neural network (AGLVQ) …