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-correction, cointegration and dynamic factor models, and has several conceptual advantages over standard ECM and FAVAR models. In particular, it …
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This paper brings together several important strands of the econometrics literature: error-correction, cointegration … the standard ECM, the FECM protects, at least in part, from omitted variable bias and the dependence of cointegration … cointegration prevent the errors from being non-invertible moving average processes. In addition, the FECM is a natural …
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Inflation is a far from homogeneous phenomenon, a fact often neglected in modelling consumer price inflation. This study, the first of its kind for an emerging market country, investigates gains to inflation forecast accuracy by aggregating weighted forecasts of the sub-component price indices,...
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Models for the twelve-month-ahead US rate of inflation, measured by the chain weighted consumer expenditure deflator, are estimated for 1974-99 and subsequent pseudo out-of-sample forecasting performance is examined. Alternative forecasting approaches for different information sets are compared...
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This paper examines the exchange rate predictability stemming from the equilibrium model of international financial adjustment developed by Gourinchas and Rey (2007). Using predictive variables that measure cyclical external imbalances for country pairs, we assess the ability of this model to...
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A popular view is that the surge in the price of oil during 2003-08 cannot be explained by economic fundamentals, but …, there is strong evidence that the co-movement between spot and futures prices reflects common economic fundamentals rather …
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questionnaire evidence. We find that fund managers and FX dealers differ significantly. Fund managers rely more on fundamentals …
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We develop a structural model of the global market for crude oil that for the first time explicitly allows for shocks to the speculative demand for oil as well as shocks to the flow demand and flow supply. The forward-looking element of the real price of oil is identified with the help of data...
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broadens the set of fundamentals to nonmonetary variables, including unemployment or the state of the banking sector, and even … "softer" fundamentals such as the reputation of the policymaker and the rules of the game played by the participants in a … fixed exchange rate arrangement. It also suggests that the relationship between the economic fundamentals and devaluation …
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during crises depends on the tail properties of the fundamentals’ distribution. We denote crisis linkages as either strong or … crisis levels, the probability that the other currency breaks down as well vanishes asymptotically if the fundamentals … fundamentals. …
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