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The authors document the out-of-sample forecasting accuracy of the New Keynesian model for Canada. They estimate their … tests of forecasting accuracy. Their results show that the forecasting accuracy of the New Keynesian model compares … favourably with that of the benchmarks, particularly as the forecasting horizon increases. These results suggest that the model …
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The recent strengh of the U.S. economy and historically low rates of inflation have sparked considerable debate among economists and Federal Reserve officials. In order to better explain the recent behaviour of inflation, some observers have raised the concept of a non-accelerating inflation...
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This paper revisits Canada's pioneering experience with floating exchange rate over the period 1950–1962. It examines whether the floating rate was the best option for Canada in the 1950s by developing and estimating a New Keynesian small open economy model of the Canadian economy. The model...
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The authors estimate a sticky-price dynamic stochastic general-equilibrium model with a financial accelerator, à la Bernanke, Gertler, and Gilchrist (1999), to assess the importance of financial frictions in the amplification and propagation of the effects of transitory shocks. Structural...
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The Survey of Professional Forecasters (SPF) has had vast influence on research related to better understanding expectation formation and the behaviour of macroeconomic agents. Inflation expectations, in particular, have received a great deal of attention, since they play a crucial role in...
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indicator. In-sample forecasting results indicate that the three composite indicators are useful tools for predicting financial … stress events. The out-of-sample forecasting results suggest that for most countries, including Canada, the weighted …
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The authors describe the key features of a new large-scale Canadian macroeconomic forecasting model developed over the …
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Weak identification is likely to be prevalent in multi-equation macroeconomic models such as in dynamic stochastic general equilibrium setups. Identification difficulties cause the breakdown of standard asymptotic procedures, making inference unreliable. While the extensive econometric...
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forecasting power of these models for the Japanese economy. In this paper, we aim at assessing the relative performance of factor …. For most of the components, we report that factor models yield lower forecasting errors than a simple AR process or an … improvements in terms of forecasting accuracy are found for more volatile periods, such as the recent financial crisis. However …
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