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pools, and use it to investigate the relative forecasting performance of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE …
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This paper revisits inflation forecasting using reduced-form Phillips curve forecasts, that is, inflation forecasts … evidence of autonomous variance breaks and inflation gap persistence. Through a real-time out-of-sample forecasting exercise … quarterly inflation relative to an extended range of forecasting models that are typically used in the literature. …
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partial least squares (PLS) regression to extract dynamic factors from the data set. Our forecasting analysis considers ten …
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Using the panel component of the Michigan Survey of Consumers, we show that individuals, in particular women and ethnic minorities, are highly heterogeneous in their expectations of inflation. We estimate a model of inflation expectations based on learning from experience that also allows for...
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Remarks at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business Annual U.S. Monetary Policy Forum, New York City.
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Remarks at The Economic Club of New York, New York City.
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One of the most robust stylized facts in macroeconomics is the forecasting power of the term spread for future real … activity. The economic rationale for this forecasting power usually appeals to expectations of future interest rates, which … affect the slope of the term structure. In this paper, we propose a possible causal mechanism for the forecasting power of …
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Fluctuations in the aggregate balance sheets of financial intermediaries provide a window on the joint determination of asset prices and macroeconomic aggregates. We document that financial intermediary balance sheets contain strong predictive power for future excess returns on a broad set of...
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How is the term structure able to predict future interest rates several months in the future and why is it so steep at the short end? Recent empirical work shows that rates of mean reversion are too slow to help predict short rates or to account for the curve's steepness. We propose that short...
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Forecasts are of great importance and widely used in economics and finance. Quite simply, good forecasts lead to good decisions. The importance of forecast evaluation and combination techniques follows immediately—forecast users naturally have a keen interest in monitoring and improving...
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