Arbeitspapier
An unconventional weekly economic activity index for Germany
We develop an unconventional activity index for the German economy at weekly frequency in order to monitor economic developments at the current end in real time. The index contains nine high-frequency, rather unconventional weekly indicators. These are augmented by monthly industrial production and quarterly gross domestic product. The weekly activity index is then calculated as the common factor of the mixed-frequency dataset. It turns out that the index exhibits a high correlation with quarterly GDP growth and is thus able to serve as a reliable weekly coincident indicator for economic activity in Germany.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Technical Paper ; No. 02/2020
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
- Subject
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business cycle
economic indicator
factor analysis
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Eraslan, Sercan
Götz, Thomas
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Deutsche Bundesbank
- (where)
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Frankfurt a. M.
- (when)
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2020
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Eraslan, Sercan
- Götz, Thomas
- Deutsche Bundesbank
Time of origin
- 2020