They use a variety of stock and flow data observed at mixed frequencies (including very high frequencies), and they use a dynamic factor model that permits exact filtering. They illustrate the framework in a prototype empirical example and a simulation study calibrated to the example.
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Working Paper
Real-Time Measurement of Business Conditions
September 2008
WP 08-19 – The authors construct a framework for measuring economic activity at high frequency, potentially in real time.