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Unspanned macroeconomic factors in the yield curve

Coroneo, Laura; Giannone, Domenico; Modugno, Michele - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2014

In this paper, we extract common factors from a cross-section of U.S. macro-variables and Treasury zero-coupon yields. We find that two macroeconomic factors have an important predictive content for government bond yields and excess returns. These factors are not spanned by the cross-section of...

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Consumers' Attitudes and Their Inflation Expectations

Ehrmann, Michael; Pfajfar, Damjan; Santoro, Emilianio - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2015

This paper studies consumers' inflation expectations using micro-level data from the Surveys of Consumers conducted by University of Michigan. It shows that beyond the well-established socio-economic factors such as income, age or gender, other characteristics such as the households' financial...

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The Importance of Updating: Evidence from a Brazilian Nowcasting Model

Bragoli, Daniela; Metelli, Luca; Modugno, Michele - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2014

GDP and other variables. The aim of this article is to evaluate the forecasting performance of the Central Bank of Brazil …

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Non-linearity in the Inflation-Growth Relationship in Developing Economies: Evidence from a Semiparametric Panel Model

Baglan, Deniz; Yoldas, Emre - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2014

Using data on developing economies, we estimate a flexible semiparametric panel data model that incorporates potentially nonlinear effects of inflation on economic growth. We find that inflation is associated with significantly lower growth only after it reaches about 12 percent, which is...

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The scarcity value of Treasury collateral: Repo market effects of security-specific supply and demand factors

D'Amico, Stefania; Fan, Roger; Kitsul, Yuriy - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2014

In the special collateral repo market, forward agreements are security-specific, which may magnify demand and supply effects. We quantify the scarcity value of Treasury collateral by estimating the impact of security-specific demand and supply factors on the repo rates of all outstanding U.S....

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IT investment and Hicks' composite-good theorem: the U.S. experience

Marquez, Jaime; Wang, Shing-Yi - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2003

pattern that is consistent with Hicks' composite-good theorem and that may be used for forecasting. To determine whether one …

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A framework for economic forecasting

Ericsson, Neil R.; Marquez, Jaime - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 1998

from other aspects of the forecasting process, resulting in inefficient forecasting techniques and seemingly puzzling … forecasting process. …

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Bayesian Model Averaging and exchange rate forecasts

Wright, Jonathan H. - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2003

Exchange rate forecasting is hard and the seminal result of Meese and Rogoff (1983) that the exchange rate is well … constructing other forecasting models. However, in several other macro and financial forecasting applications, researchers in … recent years have considered methods for forecasting that combine the information in a large number of time series. One …

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Predictable uncertainty in economic forecasting

Ericsson, Neil R. - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2000

This paper provides an introduction to predictable forecast uncertainty in empirical economic modelling. The sources of both predictable and unpredictable forecast uncertainty are categorized. Key features of predictable forecast uncertainty are illustrated by several analytical models,...

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Improving the forecast accuracy of provisional data: an application of the Kalman filter to retail sales estimates

Pauls, B. Dianne - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 1987

If forecasts of economic activity are to rely on preliminary data, the predictable component of the data revisions should be taken into account. This paper applies the Kalman filter to improve the forecast accuracy of published preliminary estimates of retail sales. Successive estimates of...

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