12:00 - 13:00
We-SPOT05
Chair:
Fabio Ricciato (Eurostat, Luxembourg)
Publicly available high frequency indicators for assessing current economic activity in crisis time
Arnaud Atoch, (Email) 3, Sebastian Barnes, (Email) 1, 3, Thomas Brand, (Email) 2, Marnix Dek, (Email) 3, Gyorgy Gyomai, (Email) 3, Michel Juillard, (Email) 1, Jeroen Meyer, (Email) 3
1 Banque de France
2 CEPREMAP
3 OECD

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a sudden drop in activity of a
magnitude unknown in recent history. Many sectors
came to a virtual halt. In late Spring, economies started to grow again.

These very fast developments are only imperfectly described by usual statistics. Alternative indicators about particular sector of activities offer a partial glance at some aspect of economic life in almost real time. Bank of France, DBnomics and OECD got together to integrate high frequency indicators into the DBnomics platform.

We revisit six months of COVID-19 crisis through the lenses of this new set of high frequency indicators.