A Leading Index for the Colombian Economic Activity

Número: 
243
Publicado: 
Clasificación JEL: 
C53, C82, E32
Palabras clave: 
Coincident indexes, leading indexes, state space models

In this paper, we propose a methodology for calculating a leading index of the economic activity based on a modification of Stock and Watson’s (1989, 1991, 1992) approach. We use Kalman filter techniques for estimating the state space representation of th