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Beer, Christian ; Ferstl, Robert ; Graf, Bernhard

Improving disaggregated short-term food inflation forecasts with webscraped data

Beer, Christian, Ferstl, Robert und Graf, Bernhard (2026) Improving disaggregated short-term food inflation forecasts with webscraped data. International Journal of Forecasting 42 (3), S. 1047-1068.

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DOI zum Zitieren dieses Dokuments: 10.5283/epub.79537


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Recent studies suggest that webscraped price data can enhance the timeliness and accuracy of inflation nowcasts. In a forecasting competition against univariate time series benchmarks, we evaluate nowcasts and short-horizon forecasts using daily price quotes for Austria. Our findings indicate that webscraped data deliver accurate nowcasts several weeks earlier than official releases, because they ...

Recent studies suggest that webscraped price data can enhance the timeliness and accuracy of inflation nowcasts. In a forecasting competition against univariate time series benchmarks, we evaluate nowcasts and short-horizon forecasts using daily price quotes for Austria. Our findings indicate that webscraped data deliver accurate nowcasts several weeks earlier than official releases, because they enable the production of reliable estimates early in the reference month. Additionally, we demonstrate that nowcasts remain robust to structural breaks in food price dynamics. To our knowledge, this study is the first to examine whether webscraped nowcasts can improve disaggregated short-term forecasts up to one quarter ahead. Although direct forecasts at higher levels of aggregation are slightly more accurate, indirect forecasts derived from disaggregated data provide superior insights into the underlying dynamics of sub-components. These findings have implications for policymakers aiming to develop an effective system for real-time monitoring of inflation dynamics at a granular level.



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DokumentenartArtikel
Titel eines Journals oder einer ZeitschriftInternational Journal of Forecasting
Verlag:Elsevier
Band:42
Nummer des Zeitschriftenheftes oder des Kapitels:3
Seitenbereich:S. 1047-1068
Datum22 März 2026
InstitutionenWirtschaftswissenschaften > Institut für Betriebswirtschaftslehre
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10.1016/j.ijforecast.2026.02.003DOI
Stichwörter / KeywordsWebscraping; Online food prices; Inflation forecasting; Time series models; Nowcasting
Dewey-Dezimal-Klassifikation300 Sozialwissenschaften > 330 Wirtschaft
StatusVeröffentlicht
BegutachtetJa, diese Version wurde begutachtet
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URN der UB Regensburgurn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-795378
Dokumenten-ID79537

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