Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Konstantin S. Rybak Author-Workplace-Name: Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration Title: Evaluating the Role of Global Factors in GDP Nowcasting Title: Анализ важности глобальных факторов для наукастинга ВВП Abstract: This work shows that use of more than two global factors in standard factor-augmented model leads to significantly better nowcasts of Russian GDP growth rate. Global inflation and nominal factors are available for estimation almost in real-time which leads to earlier and better nowcasts. Keywords: GDP nowcasting, factor model Classification-JEL: C53, C82, C38, E27 Journal: Russian Economic Developments Year: 2023 Issue: 12 Month: December Pages: 18-23 File-URL: http://www.iep.ru/files/RePEc/gai/recdev/r2399.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:gai:recdev:r2399