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. After ten prosperous years with an average GDP growth of 3.7%, the current recession places non-judgemental forecasting …-sized linear dynamic regressions with priors originating in the Bayesian VAR literature. Our forecasting procedure can be …
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Do public sector wages exert presures on private sector wages, or has private sector a leadership role in wage setting?. This paper tries to isolate the pure signalling effect that one sector might exert on the other by controlling for other determinants of wages (prices, productivity,...
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This paper presents a Bayesian vector autoregression model for the Spanish economy to aid in policy making. Forecasts of this model can be used as a useful input in constructing a macroeconomic scenario. The model is also useful in monetary programming.
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for economic analysis and forecasting. This enormous volume of information, available in real time, can be handled by … inflows to Spain (the Spanish tourist industry's main customers). The improvement in the forecasting provided by the short …
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of the realized volatility is not constant and common to all. v) A forecasting horse race against 8 competing models …
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) whether the forecasting performance of governments is indeed worse than that of international organizations, and (ii) whether …
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We analyse the determinants of the structure of public debt in the case of Spain, from a sub-national perspective. The endogenous shift in the composition of debt (among shortvs long-term instruments, and loans vs securities) depends on observable measures of credit and liquidity risks. To...
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We study the relationship between hours worked and technology during the postwar period in the US. We show that the responses of hours to technological improvements have increased over time, and that the patterns captured by the SVAR are consistent with those obtained from an RBC model with a...
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multivariate dynamic models whose solution is approximated through simulation. The approach is especially suitable for models that …
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directly the inflation rate as an additional factor without reducing the forecasting ability of the model. The augmented model … the model. These conditions seem to improve the forecasting ability of the term structure components and provide us with … that model in terms of fitting and forecasting properties. Moreover, with this framework it is possible to incorporate …
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