Real-time measurement of business conditions

S. Boragan Aruoba (), Francis Diebold () and Chiara Scotti

No 08-19, Working Papers from Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Abstract: We construct a framework for measuring economic activity at high frequency, potentially in real time. We use a variety of stock and flow data observed at mixed frequencies (including very high frequencies), and we use a dynamic factor model that permits exact filtering. We illustrate the framework in a prototype empirical example and a simulation study calibrated to the example.

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