"This paper looks at the role of both commercial and investment banks in providing merger advisory services. In this … investment banks. In their dual role as lenders and advisors to firms that are the target or the acquirer in a merger, banks can … possible reasons for these different outcomes. First, it is the target firm, not the acquirer, that must be priced in a merger …

pools, and use it to investigate the relative forecasting performance of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE …

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. …

partial least squares (PLS) regression to extract dynamic factors from the data set. Our forecasting analysis considers ten …