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1 Euro-indicators Working Group Luxembourg, 9 th & 10 th June 2011

2 Item 9.4 of the Agenda New developments in EuroMIND estimates Rosa Ruggeri Cannata Doc 309/11

3 What is EuroMIND? EuroMIND is a Monthly INDicator of economic conditions. It provides an estimate of GDP based on the temporal disaggregation of the quarterly National Accounts estimates, within a set of linked medium-size dynamic factor models for a set of coincident indicators It delivers a timely assessment of the state of the euro area economy It combines methodological pertinence and practical relevance

4 EuroMIND is by construction consistent with the official National Accounts estimates compiled by Eurostat It has desirable properties both for the historical disaggregation of GDP and its main components, and for nowcasting the level of economic activity by sector and expenditure components There are two main versions of EuroMIND for the euro area, differing for the inclusion or not of survey variables (Frale et al. 2008, 2009) (EuroMIND and EuroMIND-S) Now we also have a backdated version EuroMIND-B and a decomposition of EuroMIND into potential output and output gap, EuroMIND-G

5 Methodology (1) We carry out the disaggregation of the chain-linked quarterly value added from the output side (Agriculture, Industry, Construction, Trade, Financial services, Other services) and from the expenditure side (Final consumption, Gross capital formation, Exports, Imports) We adopt a dynamic factor model at the monthly level, taking the temporal aggregation constraint into account. The multivariate models are cast in the state space form and computational efficiency is achieved by implementing univariate filtering and smoothing procedures

6 Methodology (2) The chained-linked total GDP results via a multistep procedure that exploits the additivity of the volume measures expressed at the prices of the previous year The final estimate is obtained by combining the two estimates (output side and expenditure side) with weights reflecting their relative precision

7 EuroMIND and the business cycle The availability of a monthly indicator disaggregated into branches of activity such as EuroMIND is particularly relevant to monitor the business cycle in real time EuroMIND allows to follow in real time the evolution of the different elements of the euro area economy: sectors and demand components

8 Information set Quarterly Value Added are available from the beginning of 1995 in SA and WDA terms and refer to the euro Area Since December 2006 we have estimated EuroMIND once at month, right after the publication of the Industrial Production index (around the 15th). A mixed frequency model is used to disaggregate the quarterly NA values in sample and to compute the monthly values out of sample up to time t-2 The information set includes National Account data, monthly "hard" indicators (industrial production, employment, hours worked etc.) and, for EuroMIND-S, Business and Consumer surveys data

9 EuroMIND: the information set by sector Output side: For Industry (CDE) and Construction (F), a core indicator is represented by the index of industrial production. For the remaining branches (services), the monthly variables tend to be less directly related to the economic content of value added Expenditure size: for Final consumption expenditures some indicators of demand are available together with the production of consumer goods. For Gross capital formation a core indicator is the production index (both for industry and constructions), plus some specific variables for constructions. As far as the External Balance is concerned, the monthly volume index of Imports and Exports is provided by Eurostat, although some delay

10 Extension of the information set: business survey data Unfortunately financial indicators, such as spread, interest and exchange rates..., never resulted statistically significant. In order to catch sentiments and expectations of economic agents we complete this set of variables with the business survey data on Consumers, Business, Building and Services Survey data represent a very timely piece of economic information which originates from the quantification of qualitative survey questions, asking firms and consumers opinions on the state of the economy.

11 Use of business survey data In the U.S. survey data are not listed among the set of series that enter the Conference Board and the Stock and Watson (1989) indices of coincident indicators and they are not monitored by the NBER experts when dating the US business cycle Survey series are featured in the Eurocoin indicator for the euro area produced by the CEPR and in Euro- Sting, the short term indicator of the Euro area growth produced recently by the Spanish central bank

12 EuroMIND-S Business Survey data gave useful results to improve the model in terms of nowcast and short term forecast ability (FMMP(2010)-Survey Data as Coincident or Leading Indicator, JoF 29) The original model has been extended with more than one common factor and a smoother common component (IZAR) which allows for low-frequency cycles and fits survey data features

13 EuroMind-S: last 12 releases Billions of euro, chain linked volumes, reference year Apr-10 May-10 Jun-10 Jul-10 Aug-10 Sep Oct-10 Nov-10 Dec-10 Jan-11 Feb-11 Mar Jan-09 Feb-09 Mar-09 Apr-09 May-09 Jun-09 Jul-09 Aug-09 Sep-09 Oct-09 Nov-09 Dec-09 Jan-10 Feb-10 Mar-10 Apr-10 May-10 Jun-10 Jul-10 Aug-10 Sep-10 Oct-10 Nov-10 Dec-10 Jan-11 Feb-11

14 EuroMIND-S perfomance An application to the valued added for Industry, comparing the extended model versus the original EuroMIND formulation in terms of forecast ability has been developed. The issue of data revisions and news content in each block of series, survey and hard data, was also analyzed Evidence for a better performance of a model including both hard and survey data was found. Information from surveys was related to the lack of hard data (in line with the literature, e.g. Giannone et al. (2009) for the US)

15 Growth rates: comparison among indicators Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb variations over previous period Quarterly GDP EuroMind EuroMind-S variations over same period of previous year Quarterly GDP EuroMind EuroMind-S

16 Other extensions of EuroMIND EuroMIND-B(ackcast): tracking the business cycle in the euro area since the early 70s EuroMIND-G(ap): real time estimates of the output gap based on EuroMIND

17 EuroMIND-B(ackcast) QNA: available from the first quarter of 1995 (introduction of ESA95). Accordingly, EuroMIND estimated since 1996 Recently, Eurostat has produced a database of the main European economic indicators, backdated up to 1971 based on backcasting techniques. This in turn enabled the backcalculation of EuroMIND from 1995 backward The production of a long indicator, measured at the monthly frequency, and based on a rigorous statistical methodology, is clearly a great improvement in the direction of creating a relevant statistical information base for an economic policy at the European level

18 EuroMIND-B and turning points detection EuroMIND-B may play an important role also for the analysis of the business cycle in the Euro area. Estimates of the turning points and of the recession probabilities of the classical cycle for the Euro area Results show three major recessionary patterns: in the 70, in the 90 plus the last recession They confirm the inception of the last recession in Feb. 2008, characterized by the largest steepness and duration

19 EuroMIND-G(ap) During the recent economic and financial crises, the discussion about potential output and long run growth dynamics has regained new interest among policy makers and Institutions the usual decomposition of a time series such as GDP into the trend and the cycle component has assumed an important economic interpretation EuroMInd-G provides the decomposition of EuroMInd into potential output and the output gap

20 EuroMIND-G: methodology (1) EuroMInd-G is based on model based decomposition of both the common cyclical trend and the GDP idiosyncratic component into a low-pass and a high-pass component The decomposition is thus embedded into the dynamic factor model and enables the extraction of the unobserved potential and gap series using standard optimal signal extraction principles The components can be estimated and their reliability assessed by applying the Kalman filter and smoother to a modified state space model

21 EuroMIND-G: methodology (2) The model depends on an integer m (chosen a priori) defining the order of the decomposition of the white noise disturbances driving the common and the idiosyncratic trends And on a non negative scalar λ (chosen a priori) which represents the smoothness parameter and, together with m, defines uniquely the decomposition The variances low-pass and high-pass disturbances are proportional, and depend on λ; as λ increases, the smoothness of the low pass component also increases, since a larger portion of high frequency variation is removed

22 EuroMIND-G: methodology (3) For given values of λ and m, the decomposition defines a new potential output disturbance that uses only the low frequencies whereas the remainder will contribute to the high pass component The spectral density of the disturbances of the low pass component has two poles at the frequency π; on the contrary, the spectral density of the high pass component has two poles at the zero frequency The role of the smoothness parameter can be related to the notion of a cut off frequency

23 Application The cut off period has be set to correspond to eight years (96 monthly observations) The related value of the smoothness parameter is λ = , corresponding to a low-pass component retaining all the potential output fluctuations with a periodicity greater than 8 years In finite samples the estimator of the low pass and high pass components is computed by the Kalman filter and smoother applied to the state space model with measurement equation modified so as to incorporate the band-pass decomposition of GDP. The state-space form is modified so as to account for temporal aggregation of the GDP series

24 Results The main advantage of performing a model based decomposition is that the no special treatment of the end values is necessary, since the optimal estimates of the components are automatically provided by the Kalman filter and smoother associated to the model featuring the band-pass components Results are very encouraging: the estimated cycle capture quite well the swings in the economy as results of consecutive phases of recessions and expansion It is visible how the European economy has entered period of severe slowdown in the economy around 1974, 1980, 1992 and finally in 2008

25 EuroMind the Gap Billions of euro, chain-linked volumes, reference year EuroMind Cycle -15 Trend -20 EuroMind the Gap Jan-95 Jan-96 Jan-97 Jan-98 Jan-99 Jan-00 Jan-01 Jan-02 Jan-03 Jan-04 Jan-05 Jan-06 Jan-07 Jan-08 Jan-09 Jan-10 Jan-95 Jan-96 Jan-97 Jan-98 Jan-99 Jan-00 Jan-01 Jan-02 Jan-03 Jan-04 Jan-05 Jan-06 Jan-07 Jan-08 Jan-09 Jan-10

26 Thank you for your attention

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