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We revive in this paper the empirical relevance of the competitive storage model by taking a holistic approach to food commodity prices. We augment the seminal Deaton and Laroque (1992, 1996) model by incorporating more comprehensive and realistic supply and demand factors: output and demand...
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This paper develops a new forecasting framework for GDP growth in Korea to complement and further enhance existing … forecasting approaches. First, a range of forecast models, including indicator- and pure time-series models, are evaluated for … their forecasting performance. Based on the evaluation results, a new forecasting framework is developed for GDP projections …
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The paper uses survey data to analyze whether financial market expectations on government budget deficits changed in France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom during the period of the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP). Our findings indicate that accuracy of financial expert deficit forecasts...
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Macroeconomic policy decisions in real-time are based the assessment of current and future economic conditions. These assessments are made difficult by the presence of incomplete and noisy data. The problem is more acute for emerging market economies, where most economic data are released...
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How does the South African government react to changes in its debt position? In investigating the question, this paper estimates fiscal reaction functions using various methods (OLS, VAR, TAR, GMM, State-Space modelling and VECM). The paper finds that since 1946 the South African government has...
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indicators and a dynamic factor model. The financial conditions indexes are shown to be useful for forecasting economic activity …
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Will Ghana’s oil production from 2011 accelerate progress toward middle-income status, or will it retard gains in living standards through a possible "resource curse"? This paper examines the likelihood of "resource curse" effects, drawing on a dataset of 150 low and middle income...
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A stochastic debt forecasting framework is presented where projected debt distributions reflect both the joint …-round effects of fiscal policy on macroeconomic projections. The forecasting framework thus reflects the impact of the primary … balance on the forecast of macro aggregates. Previously-developed forecasting algorithms that do not incorporate these second …
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This paper characterizes the term structure of Treasury bond yields for Brazil, and estimates a Nelson-Siegel Model to reproduce its stylized facts for the period 2004-2010. For this purpose, this paper uses a software developed by Fund staff. In addition, the paper estimates two versions of the...
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The paper assesses estimates of term structure models for the United States. To this end, this paper first describes the mathematics underlying two types of term structure models, namely the Nelson-Siegel and Cox, Ingersoll and Ross family of models, and the estimation techniques. It then...
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