 | Using the Google Places API and Google Trends Data to Develop High Frequency Indicators of Economic Activity Author/Editor: Paul A Austin, Marco Marini, Alberto Sanchez, Chima Simpson-Bell, James Tebrake. Release Date:December, 2021 As the pandemic heigthened policymakers' demand for more frequent and timely indicators to assess economic activities, traditional data collection and compilation methods to produce official more...
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 | Big Data on Vessel Traffic: Nowcasting Trade Flows in Real Time Author/Editor: Serkan Arslanalp, Marco Marini, Patrizia Tumbarello. Release Date:December, 2019 Vessel traffic data based on the Automatic Identification System (AIS) is a big data source for nowcasting trade activity in real time. Using Malta as a benchmark, we develop indicators of trade and more...
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 | New Estimates for Direction of Trade Statistics Author/Editor: Marco Marini, Robert Dippelsman, Michael Stanger. Release Date:January, 2018 In March 2017, the IMF published an upgrade of its Direction of Trade Statistics (DOTS)
dataset. This paper documents the new methodology that has been developed to estimate
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 | Measure up : A Better Way to Calculate GDP Author/Editor: Thomas F Alexander, Claudia H Dziobek, Marco Marini, Eric Metreau, Michael Stanger. Release Date:February, 2017 To derive real GDP, the System of National Accounts 2008 (2008 SNA) recommends a technique called double deflation. Some countries use single deflation techniques, which fail to capture important more...
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 | Nowcasting Annual National Accounts with Quarterly Indicators : An Assessment of Widely Used Benchmarking Methods Author/Editor: Marco Marini. Release Date:March, 2016 Benchmarking methods can be used to extrapolate (or “nowcast”) low-frequency benchmarks
on the basis of available high-frequency indicators. Quarterly national accounts are a typical
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 | Quarterly GDP Revisions in G-20 Countries: Evidence from the 2008 Financial Crisis Author/Editor: Manik L Shrestha, Marco Marini. Release Date:March, 2013 This paper presents a statistical analysis of revisions in quarterly gross domestic product (GDP) of the Group of Twenty countries (G-20) since 2000. The main objective is to assess whether the more...
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 | On the Extrapolation with the Denton Proportional Benchmarking Method Author/Editor: Tommaso Di Fonzo, Marco Marini. Release Date:June, 2012 Statistical offices have often recourse to benchmarking methods for compiling quarterly national accounts (QNA). Benchmarking methods employ quarterly indicator series (i) to distribute annual, more more...
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 | A Newton's Method for Benchmarking Time Series According to a Growth Rates Preservation Principle Author/Editor: Marco Marini, Tommaso Di Fonzo. Release Date:July, 2011 This work presents a new technique for temporally benchmarking a time series according to the growth rates preservation principle (GRP) by Causey and Trager (1981). A procedure is developed which (i) more...
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