Assessing the Short-term Forecasting Power of Confidence Indices

This paper assesses the predictive power of the main confidence indices available in Brazil to forecast economic activity. More specifically, we consider a set of economic activity variables and, for each of those, compare the predictive power of a univariate autoregressive model to that of a simil...

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Main Authors: Euler Pereira de Mello, Francisco Figueiredo
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2018-04-01
Series:Economia Aplicada
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Online Access:http://www.revistas.usp.br/ecoa/article/view/145240