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simple to construct and appear to work well in a variety of cases explored empirically and by simulation. The proposed … inflation. …
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forecasts are not optimal. Seemingly unrelated regressions are used to address questions concerning the inflation forecast …
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Recently, several institutions have increased their forecast horizons, and many institutions rely on their past forecast errors to estimate measures of forecast uncertainty. This work addresses the question how the latter estimation can be accomplished if there are only very few errors available...
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represent nicely the two opposing forecasting philosophies. The DSGE model on the one hand has a strong theoretical economic … DSGE model can provide reasonable forecasts for inflation, especially with growing forecast horizons. To a certain extent …-horizon forecasting and structural models should be used in long-horizon forecasting. Our paper compareds both state-of-the art data …
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of monetary policy shocks, and we observe that the reaction of GDP, the GDP deflator, inflation expectations and long …
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. The consequences of using real-time data for inflation forecasts, the dynamic interaction of output gaps and inflation …
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This paper assesses the performance of monetary indicators in predicting euro area HICP inflation out-of-sample over … the period since the start of EMU considering a wide range of forecasting models, including standard bivariate forecasting … models, factor models, simple combination forecasts as well as trivariate two-pillar Phillips Curve type forecasting models …
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Inflation expectations are often found to depend on socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of households, such … impact of three sources of the demographic dependence of inflation expectations using data for Germany. Overall, our findings … suggest that household-specific inflation rates and group-specific news consumption accounts for the higher expectation gaps …
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Efficiency is considered a key factor when evaluating a bank's performance. Moreover, efficiency enhancement is an explicit policy objective in the Single Market Directive of the European Commission. But efficiency improvements may come at the expense of deteriorating bank profits and excessive...
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We compared forecasts of stock market volatility based on real-time and revised macroeconomic data. To this end, we used a new dataset on monthly real-time macroeconomic variables for Germany. The dataset covers the period 1994-2005. We used a statistical, a utility-based, and an options-based...
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