The insurance industry has a giant role in the sustainable economic growth of any country.
With an increase in the number of insurance buyers, it has become an absolute necessity for …

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are a major contributor to economic growth
and a potential source of growth and employment globally. This article employs a …

This paper presents a systematic review of research papers on nowcasting economic
activity. The study summarizes the state‐of‐the‐art nowcasting approaches and methods …

We use a dynamic panel data model to generate density forecasts for daily active Covid-19
infections for a panel of countries/regions. Our specification that assumes the growth rate of …

Introduction: The insurance sector is playing a crucial role in the sustainable growth of the
Indian economy. But in India, this sector loses crores of rupees every year due to the …

Leveraging the increasing availability of” big data” to inform forecasts of labor market activity
is an active, yet challenging, area of research. Often, the primary difficulty is finding credible …

With the global spread of the Coronavirus epidemic, search engine data can be a practical
tool for decision-makers to understand the epidemic's trends. This article uses trend analysis …

In December 2019, medical professionals hypothesized that clusters of a new respiratory
disease were developing in the Chinese city of Wuhan. On January 3rd, 2020, the World …

We survey approaches to macroeconomic forecasting during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Due
to the unprecedented nature of the episode, there was greater dependence on information …

We propose a way to directly nowcast the output gap using the Beveridge–Nelson
decomposition based on a mixed-frequency Bayesian VAR. The mixed-frequency approach …