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Heiner Mikosch

@hmikosch.bsky.social

Economist, Researcher

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Heiner Mikosch@hmikosch.bsky.social · 2mo ago

API Updates and Elastic Net Specifications As part of our continuing efforts to improve the Nowcasting Lab @ KOF, ETH Zurich, we have updated some of our model specifications. This has also resulted in changes to some of our API endpoints. As we continuously develop, revise, and occasionally…

API Updates and Elastic Net Specifications

As part of our continuing efforts to improve the Nowcasting Lab @ KOF, ETH Zurich, we have updated some of our model specifications. This has also resulted in changes to some of our API endpoints. As we continuously develop, revise, and occasionally retire individual models and methods, we need to adjust our API naming conventions from time to time to ensure a coherent and consistent structure.

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Heiner Mikosch@hmikosch.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Presentations at SNB and SECO Recently, we have been presenting the KOF Nowcasting Lab at the Swiss National Bank and the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO to inform about the current status and work in progress. Here is the link to the presentation: I would like to highlight four slides…

Presentations at SNB and SECO

Recently, we have been presenting the KOF Nowcasting Lab at the Swiss National Bank and the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO to inform about the current status and work in progress. Here is the link to the presentation: I would like to highlight four slides from the presentation: 1.) Website viewer statistics During the past 12 months, the Nowcasting Lab Website received 4100 unique visitors (unique APIs) and 15400 total page views.

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Heiner Mikosch@hmikosch.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Behind-the-Scenes Model Updates If you’ve visited the Nowcasting Lab website recently, you may not notice anything dramatically different at first glance. The charts are still there, the country pages still update regularly, and the overall experience feels familiar. But behind the scenes, a…

Behind-the-Scenes Model Updates

If you’ve visited the Nowcasting Lab website recently, you may not notice anything dramatically different at first glance. The charts are still there, the country pages still update regularly, and the overall experience feels familiar. But behind the scenes, a meaningful change has taken place. This post explains what changed, why it matters, and why implementing it required more care than it might seem.

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Heiner Mikosch@hmikosch.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🎉 Our paper “Seeing and Hearing is Believing” is conditionally accepted at the European Economic Review! We show that #audiovisual #centralbank #communication—especially video—improves #inflation‐expectation updating. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #research #economics #monetarypolicy

Seeing and Hearing is Believing: The Role of Audiovisual Communication in Shaping Inflation Expectations

This paper presents novel causal evidence on the relationship between various communication channels employed by central banks and households' expectations abou

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Heiner Mikosch@hmikosch.bsky.social · last yr.

News from #KOF #Nowcasting Lab (nowcastinglab.org): Reached unexpected "milestone": our #computing processes consumed so many #MATLAB #licenses that entire system came to a halt. Full story on our #blog: blognowcastinglab.wordpress.com/2025/07/11/h... @kofeth.bsky.social @mathworks.bsky.social

How the Nowcasting Lab Consumed 10,000 MATLAB Licenses

In a recent and rather unexpected turn of events, the Nowcasting Lab managed to use up all available MATLAB licenses at ETH Zurich—approximately 10,000 in total. As a result, MATLAB license allocat…

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