“…Other efforts to measure economic activity in real time include nowcasting GDP growth in Brazil (Bantis et al, 2023[5]), the United States (Bantis et al, 2023[5]); (Kohns, David and Bhattacharjee, 2023[6]), Finland (Heikkinen and Joni, 2019 [7]) and Germany (Götz and Knetsch, 2019[8]). In the case of Germany, Götz and Knetsch (2019 [8]) use Google Trends data as the input of a bridge equation model to nowcast aggregate GDP, various GDP components, as well as monthly activity indicators.…”