Forecasting German GDP using alternative
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Christian Schumacher
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Article
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2007
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract This paper discusses the forecasting performance of alternative factor models based on a large panel of quarterly time series for the German economy. One model extracts factors by static principal components analysis; the second model is based on dynamic principal components obtained us