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statistical benchmarks, and revisit the forecasting performance of changes in commodity currencies as efficient predictors of … least squares (PLS) regression to extract dynamic factors from the data set. Our forecasting analysis considers ten …
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This paper is concerned with the influence of agglomeration economies on economic outcomes across British regions. The concentration of economic activity in one place can foster economic performance due to the reduction in transportation costs, the ready availability of customers and suppliers,...
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Cross-country evidence is presented on resource dependence and the link between volatility and growth. First, growth depends negatively on volatility of unanticipated output growth independent of initial income per capita, the average investment share, initial human capital, trade openness, the...
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In this paper, we investigate the use of interactive effect or linear factor models in regional policy evaluation. We contrast treatment effect estimates obtained by Bai (2009)'s least squares method with the popular difference in differences estimates as well as with estimates obtained using...
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The convergence hypothesis has generated a huge empirical literature: this paper critically reviews some of the earlier key findings, clarifies their implications, and relates them to more recent results. Particular attention is devoted to interpreting convergence empirics. The main findings...
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This paper reviews the cross-country record of economic growth, using as organizing framework how economic theory has guided that empirical analysis. The paper argues that recent studies of economic growth - both empirical and theoretical - distinguish from previous work in three distinct ways:...
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The use of large-dimensional factor models in forecasting has received much attention in the literature with the … model which is better suited for forecasting compared to the traditional principal components (PC) approach.We provide an … asymptotic analysis of the estimator and illustrate its merits empirically in a forecasting experiment based on US macroeconomic …
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-sample forecasting regressions. The predictive power of the model stays high at longer horizons. The estimated factors are strongly …
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variable selection and estimation in one step. We evaluate the forecasting accuracy of these estimators for a large set of …
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Macroeconomic forecasting using factor models estimated by principal components has become a popular research topic … simply screen datasets prior to estimation and remove anomalous observations.We investigate whether forecasting performance … Carlo simulation studies. Finally, we apply our proposed estimator in a simulated real-time forecasting exercise to test its …
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