Analysing short term developments in key economic indicators: predicting the sign of period on period changes
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This study applies a range of predictive techniques to forecasting the sign of the next month’s change in five key economic indicators: consumer confidence, household consumption, producer confidence, manufacturing production and exports, all for the Netherlands. Techniques tested range from standard regression models to advanced machine learning techniques.