volatility specifications, in terms of point forecasting to some degree and density forecasting to a greater degree …

Small or medium-scale VARs are commonly used in applied macroeconomics for forecasting and evaluating the shock … instability in a forecasting context. While none of the methods clearly emerges as best, some techniques turn out to be useful to … improve the forecasting performance …

Interest rate data are an important element of macroeconomic forecasting. Projections of future interest rates are not … only an important product themselves, but also typically matter for forecasting other macroeconomic and financial variables …. A popular class of forecasting models is linear vector autoregressions (VARs) that include shorter- and longer …