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We show that professional forecasters have essentially no ability to predict future recessions a few quarters ahead … forecast horizon for predicting aggregate economic activity and, especially, for signaling future recessions. We document this …
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Since the end of the Great Recession in mid-2009, the unemployment rate has recovered slowly, falling by only one percentage point from its peak. We find that the lackluster labor market recovery can be traced in large part to weakness in aggregate demand; only a small part seems attributable to...
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Presentation to the Sonoma County Economic Development Board, Rohnert Park, California, June 28, 2013
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Presentation to the Haas Business School, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
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Two separate narratives have emerged in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis. One speaks of private financial excess and the key role of the banking system in leveraging and deleveraging the economy. The other emphasizes the public sector balance sheet over the private and worries about the...
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exhibited important departures from that seen in prior deep recessions. …
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·Videoconference Presentation to the Australian Business Economists, Sydney, Australia, May 7, 2009 ; President Yellen presented similar remarks to the Haas Business School in Berkeley, California on May 5, 2009
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which are typically followed by deeper recessions and slower recoveries. Housing finance has come to play a central role in …
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speculative agents overreact to observed technology shocks. When making forecasts about the future, speculative agents behave like … to confirm the stronger technology response. For moderate levels of risk aversion, the forecast errors observed by the … improvements in technology, investment and consumption booms, and faster trend growth, reminiscent of the U.S. economy during the …
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