Nowcasting Ukraine's GDP Using a Factor-Augmented VAR (FAVAR) Model

This article presents an approach for nowcasting the current value of Ukraine’s quarterly GDP. The approach uses leading indicators with a different disclosure frequency. We generalize data from a set of explanatory variables into several factors by using principal components analysis and estimate t...

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Main Authors: Anton Grui, Roman Lysenko
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: National Bank of Ukraine 2017-12-01
Series:Visnyk of the National Bank of Ukraine
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Online Access:https://journal.bank.gov.ua/en/article/2017/242/01