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Nowcasting with Google Trends

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Hal R. Varian
Emeritus Professor at UC Berkeley School and Chief Economist at Google

Banatao Auditorium | 310 Sutardja Dai Hall
March 16, 2022

Policy makers want to see economic metrics in real time, but statistical agencies often release such data with a considerable lag. In this talk, I will describe how one can construct estimates of real time economic metrics by using Google Trends.

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