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The Swiss National Bank conducts the country’s monetary policy as an independent central bank. It is obliged by the Constitution and by statute to act in accordance with the interests of the country as a whole. Its primary goal is to ensure price stability, while taking due account of economic developments. In so doing, it creates an appropriate environment for economic growth.
2024-06-14 – Financial markets – IMF SDDS Plus, 14 June 2024
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Read More »2024-06-10 – Data portal – Important monetary policy data, 10 June 2024
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Read More »2024-06-07 – Data portal – IMF SDDS Plus, 7 June 2024
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Read More »2024-06-07 – Data portal – Exchange rate indices, June 2024
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Read More »WP – 2024-06-04 – Milen Arro-Cannarsa and Rolf Scheufele: Nowcasting GDP: what are the gains from machine learning algorithms?
We compare several machine learning methods for nowcasting GDP. A large mixed-frequency data set is used to investigate different algorithms such as regression based methods (LASSO, ridge, elastic net), regression trees (bagging, random forest, gradient boosting), and SVR. As benchmarks, we use univariate models, a simple forward selection algorithm, and a principal components regression. The analysis accounts for publication lags and treats monthly indicators as quarterly...
Read More »2024-06-03 – Data portal – Interest rates and exchange rates, June 2024
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Read More »2024-06-03 – Data portal – Important monetary policy data, 3 June 2024
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Read More »2024-05-31 – Data portal – SNB balance sheet items end of April 2024
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Read More »2024-05-31 – Data portal – IMF SDDS Plus, 31 May 2024
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