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In this paper, we exploit micro data from the ECB Survey of Professional Forecasters (SPF) to examine the link between the characteristics of macroeconomic density forecasts (such as their location, spread, skewness and tail risk) and density forecast performance. Controlling for the effects of...
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covered include: improved money demand models for the euro area; money-based indicator models for inflation; structural …
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This paper proposes methods for estimation and inference in multivariate, multi-quantile models. The theory can …
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We use inflation and income growth expectations from the ECB Consumer Expectations Survey to measure the subjective … expected pass-through of inflation to income in the main euro area countries. By aggregating consumers' responses to … methodology allows one to examine how the pass-through varies along the probability distribution of expected inflation, which …
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This paper investigates the interplay between discretionary fiscal policy and inflation in the euro area, emphasizing … on inflation is non-linear, with debt levels significantly affecting the inflationary outcome of fiscal measures. High … debt levels tend to amplify the inflation response to fiscal expansions, a finding that holds under multiple analytical …
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This paper analyses the predictive power of market-based and survey-based inflation expectations for actual inflation …. We use the data on inflation swaps and the forecasts from the Survey of Professional Forecasters for the euro area and … power for inflation developments, as compared to statistical benchmark models. Therefore, for horizons of one and two years …
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Equilibrium correction models of the price level are often used to model inflation. Such models assume that the long …
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Forecasting the world economy is a di¢ cult task given the complex interre-lationships within and across countries. This paper proposes a number ofapproaches to forecast short-term changes in selected world economic vari-ables and aims, …rst, at ranking various forecasting methods in terms...
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Policy impact studies often suffer from endogeneity problems. Consider the case of the ECB Securities Markets Programme: if Eurosystem interventions were triggered by sudden and strong price deteriorations, looking at daily price changes may bias downwards the correlation between yields and the...
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