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Information on economic policy uncertainty (EPU) does matter in predicting oil returns especially when accounting for omitted nonlinearities in the relationship between these two variables via a time-varying coefficient approach. In this work, we compare the forecastability of standard, Bayesian...
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the random walk model, suggests that the forecasting performance of the monetary model is superior. …
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(Gaussian, Lasso-LARS, Lasso-Landweber) in forecasting the U.S. real house price growth. We also compare results with forecasts …-suited model for forecasting the U.S. real house price. Among the least square models, the individual regression with house price …
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interest about forecasting such imminent threats for economic stability. In this paper we propose a novel hybrid forecasting … Vector Regression (SVR) methodology that originates from machine learning. We test the forecasting ability of the proposed …-of-sample forecasting. Finally, we argue that this new methodology can be used as an early warning system for forecasting sudden house …
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generate recursive forecasts over 2000Q1-2011Q4. The hybrid DSGE performs extremely well in forecasting inflation variables …Inflation forecasts are a key ingredient for monetary policymaking - especially in an inflation targeting country such …. As such, other variables,e.g. such as alternative measures of inflation that might be of interest to policymakers, do not …
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competing model consistently and significantly beats the LoLiMoT's performance in forecasting South African inflation. …The conduct of inflation targeting is heavily dependent on accurate inflation forecasts. Non-linear models have … increasingly featured, along with linear counterparts, in the forecasting literature. In this study, we focus on forecasting South …
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beneficial to purge the FCI of the real effects of inflation, economic growth and interest rates, and use the identified FCI in …
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Forecasting aggregate retail sales may improve portfolio investors’ ability to predict movements in the stock prices of … the retailing chains. Therefore, this paper uses 26 (23 single and 3 combination) forecasting models to forecast South …
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We emphasize the role of news-based economic policy and equity market uncertainty indices as robust drivers of oil price fluctuations. In that, we utilizea new hybrid nonparametric quantile causality methodology in order to investigate whether EPU and EMU uncertainty measures incorporate...
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benchmarks (naive and autoregressive models) in forecasting real US house price over the annual out-of-sample period of 1859 …
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