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Several papers that make forecasts about the long-term impact of the current financial crisis rely on models in which there is only one type of financial crisis. These models tend to predict that the current crisis will have long lasting negative effects on economic growth. This paper points out...
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combine the best forecasting tools with the possibility of incorporating their own judgement. In this context, we provide …
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for forecasting GDP growth at short-term horizons in the euro area. We discuss three sets of empirical results. First we … forecast revisions. Third we design a pseudo out of sample forecasting exercise and examine point and density forecast accuracy …
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The debate on the forecasting ability of non-linear models has a long history, and the Great Recession episode provides … us with an interesting opportunity for a reassessment of the forecasting performance of several classes of non …
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produce large reductions in the out-of-sample prediction mean squared error and provides a useful alternative to forecasting …
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We document the empirical properties of revisions to major macroeconomic variables in the United States. Our findings suggest that they do not satisfy simple desirable statistical properties. In particular, we find that these revisions do not have a zero mean, which indicates that the initial...
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This paper introduces a new regression model - Markov-switching mixed data sampling (MS-MIDAS) - that incorporates regime changes in the parameters of the mixed data sampling (MIDAS) models and allows for the use of mixed-frequency data in Markov-switching models. After a discussion of...
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model forecast should become the benchmark for forecasting horse races. We compare the real-time forecasting accuracy of the … forecasting models is efficient. Our second finding is that there is no single best forecasting method. For example, typically … simple AR models are most accurate at short horizons and DSGE models are most accurate at long horizons when forecasting …
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While forecasting is a common practice in academia, government and business alike, practitioners are often left … wondering how to choose the sample for estimating forecasting models. When we forecast inflation in 2014, for example, should we … time series, and the forecasting performance is often quite sensitive to the choice of such window size. In this paper, we …
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This paper develops a method for producing current-quarter forecasts of GDP growth with a (possibly large) range of available within-the-quarter monthly observations of economic indicators, such as employment and industrial production, and financial indicators, such as stock prices and interest...
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