Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may AcknowledgementsWe thank Marta Banbura for sharing her Matlab codes and Domenico Giannone for his insightful comments. We would also like to thank seminar participants at the Bank of Canada for helpful comments and suggestions. Bryce Shelton provided excellent research assistance.iii AbstractEmerging-market economies have become increasingly important in driving global GDP growth over the past 10 to 15 years. This has made timely and accurate assessment of current and future economic activity in emerging markets important for policy-makers not only in these countries but also in advanced economies. This paper uses state-of-theart dynamic factor models (DFMs) to nowcast real GDP growth in five major emerging markets-Brazil, Russia, India, China and Mexico ("BRIC+M"). The DFM framework allows us to efficiently handle data series characterized by different publication lags, frequencies and sample lengths. This framework is particularly suitable for emerging markets for which many indicators are subject to significant publication lags and/or have been compiled only recently. The methodology also allows us to extract model-based "news" from a data release and assess the impact of this news on nowcast revisions. Results show that the DFMs generally outperform simple univariate benchmark models for the BRIC+M. Overall, our results suggest that the DFM framework provides reliable nowcasts for GDP growth for the emerging markets under consideration. JEL classification: C33, C53, E37 Bank classification: Econometric and statistical methods; International topics RésuméAu cours des dix à quinze dernières années, les économies de marché émergentes ont pris une place grandissante dans la croissance du PIB mondial. C'est pourquoi il est important que les responsables des politiques publiques de ces pays, mais également ceux des économies avancées, disposent de prévisions rapides et exactes de l'activité économique actuelle et future dans les marchés émergents. Dans la présente étude, les auteurs ont recours à des modèles à facteurs dynamiques avancés pour prévoir, pour un horizon allant du passé récent au futur proche, le taux de croissance du PIB réel de cinq grands marchés émergents, soit le Brésil, la Russie, l'Inde, la Chine et le Mexique (pays du BRIC+M). Ces modèles permettent de traiter efficacement des séries de données dont les délais et la fréquence de parution ainsi que la longueur de la période d'observation sont diff...

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