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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 missing more...



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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 more...



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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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