“…Second, we remove seasonal patterns in the series and identify the cyles. Then, we evaluate the series best fit to integrate the composite leading indicator through four statistical tests: (i) cross-correlation (Hollauer, Issler, and Notini, 2009;Oliveira, 2016;NYU, 2017;Issler and Pimentel, 2019); (ii) quadratic probability score (Chauvet, 2000;Issler, Notini, and Rodrigues, 2009); (iii) Granger-causality (Issler, Notini, and Rodrigues, 2009;Oliveira, 2016); and (iv) probit (Morais and Chauvet, 2011). Finally, we use The Conference Board's (2001) aggregation method.…”