A daily fever curve for the Swiss economy

Abstract Because macroeconomic data is published with a substantial delay, assessing the health of the economy during the rapidly evolving COVID-19 crisis is challenging. We develop a fever curve for the Swiss economy using publicly available daily financial market and news data. The indicator can b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Marc Burri, Daniel Kaufmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2020-07-01
Series:Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41937-020-00051-z