The proposal discusses the obstacles arising from interconnected information systems that support the management in Brazilian federal public universities. Question the nature of information and sources that are used in the decision-making process by managers. It aims to analyze the information...

The focus of this paper is the evaluation of a very popular method for potential output estimation and medium-term forecasting the production function approachin terms of predictive performance. For this purpose, a forecast evaluation for the three to five years ahead predictions of GDP growth...

This paper considers the problem of forecasting real and financial macroeconomic variables across a large number of countries in the global economy. To this end, a global vector autoregressive (GVAR) model previously estimated over the 1979:Q1–2003:Q4 period by Dees, de Mauro, Pesaran, and...

Due to their status as "theʺ benchmark yield for the world’s largest government bond market and its importance for US monetary policy, the interest in a "goodʺ forecast of the constant maturity yield of the 10-year U.S. Treasury bond ("T-bond yieldsʺ) is immense. This paper assesses three...