As part of our continuing efforts to improve the Nowcasting Lab @ KOF, ETH Zurich, we have updated some of our model specifications. This has also resulted in changes to some of our API endpoints. As we continuously develop, revise, and occasionally retire individual models and methods, we need to adjust our API naming conventions from time to time to ensure a coherent and consistent structure.

Recently, we have been presenting the KOF Nowcasting Lab at the Swiss National Bank and the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO to inform about the current status and work in progress. Here is the link to the presentation: I would like to highlight four slides from the presentation: 1.) Website viewer statistics During the past 12 months, the Nowcasting Lab Website received 4100 unique visitors (unique APIs) and 15400 total page views.

If you’ve visited the Nowcasting Lab website recently, you may not notice anything dramatically different at first glance. The charts are still there, the country pages still update regularly, and the overall experience feels familiar. But behind the scenes, a meaningful change has taken place. This post explains what changed, why it matters, and why implementing it required more care than it might seem.

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This paper presents novel causal evidence on the relationship between various communication channels employed by central banks and households' expectations abou

In a recent and rather unexpected turn of events, the Nowcasting Lab managed to use up all available MATLAB licenses at ETH Zurich—approximately 10,000 in total. As a result, MATLAB license allocat…

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