Journal: Visnyk of the National Bank of Ukraine
Year: 2017

This article presents an approach for nowcasting the current value of Ukraine's quarterly GDP.The approach uses leading indicators with a different disclosure frequency.We generalize data from a set of explanatory variables into several factors by using principal components analysis and estimate the factor-augmented VAR (FAVAR) model.Our system incorporates new data as they are published throughout a quarter to adjust GDP nowcasts.In addition, we research the influence of separate data releases