Coincident and Leading Indexes for the UK A Comparison of Methods for the Construction of Composite Coincident and Leading Indexes for the UK∗
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In this paper we provide an overview of recent developments in the methodology for the construction of composite coincident and leading indexes, and apply them to the UK. In particular, we evaluate the relative merits of factor based models and Markov switching specifications for the construction of coincident and leading indexes. For the leading indexes we also evaluate the performance of probit models and pooling. The results indicate that alternative methods produce similar coincident indexes, while there are more marked differences in the leading indexes.
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