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interaction of fiscal and monetary policy during this period has also been the subject of much discussion and analysis. This paper …
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This paper proposes new methodologies for evaluating out-of-sample forecasting performance that are robust to the … choice of the estimation window size. The methodologies involve evaluating the predictive ability of forecasting models over … application shows the usefulness of the methodologies for evaluating exchange rate models' forecasting ability. …
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a stylized fact. But, over time, the results of tests that led to such a conclusion were reversed. In this paper, we …
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This paper presents a small-scale macroeconometric time-series model that can be used to generate short-term forecasts … (VEC) literature, the author specifies the baseline model as a Bayesian VEC. The author documents the model's forecasting … promise as a workhorse forecasting tool. …
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This paper presents the concept and uses of a real-time data set that can be used by economists for testing the … robustness of published econometric results, for analyzing policy, and for forecasting. The data set consists of vintages, or … snapshots, of the major macroeconomic data available at quarterly intervals in real time. The paper illustrates why such data …
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the Third Federal Reserve District--Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. This paper extends that work by developing a …
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Prediction problems involving asymmetric loss functions arise routinely in many fields, yet the theory of optimal prediction under asymmetric loss is not well developed. We study the optimal prediction problem under general loss structures and characterize the optimal predictor. We compute it...
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In this paper the authors argue that a plausible reason why output and other major U.S. macroeconomic time series seem …
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This paper develops and illustrates a simple method to generate a DSGE model-based forecast for variables that do not …
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This paper proposes Bayesian forecasting in a vector autoregression using a democratic prior. This prior is chosen to …
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