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Forecasting with the Index of Leading Indicators

Vaccara, Beatrice N. - 1978

The composite index of leading indicators is found to be a valuable tool for predicting not only the direction but also the size of near- term changes in aggregate economic activity. This conclusion is based on assessments of the leading index as a predictor of (1) business cycle turning points...

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Real-Time Forecasting with a Mixed-Frequency VAR

Schorfheide, Frank - 2013

This paper develops a vector autoregression (VAR) for time series which are observed at mixed frequencies - quarterly and monthly. The model is cast in state-space form and estimated with Bayesian methods under a Minnesota-style prior. We show how to evaluate the marginal data density to...

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The Predictive Power of the Term Spread and Financial Variables for Economic Activity across Countries

Chinn, Menzie David; Ferrara, Laurent - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

In recent years, there has been renewed interest in the moments of the yield curve (or alternatively, the term spread) as a predictor of future economic activity, defined as either recessions, or industrial production growth. In this paper, we re-examine the evidence for this predictor for the...

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Identifying Long-Run Risks : A Bayesian Mixed-Frequency Approach

Schorfheide, Frank - 2014

multiple stochastic volatility processes. The estimation is based on annual consumption data from 1929 to 1959, monthly … Bayesian estimation provides strong evidence for a small predictable component in consumption growth (even if asset return data … are omitted from the estimation). Three independent volatility processes capture different frequency dynamics; our …

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The Comovements Between Real Activity and Prices at Different Business Cycle Frequencies

Haan, Wouter J. Den - 1996

In this paper, I present two different methods that can be used to obtain a concise set of descriptive results about the comovement of variables. The statistics are easy to interpret and capture important information about the dynamics in the system that would be lost if one focused only on the...

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Are Macroeconomic Forecasts Informative? Cointegration Evidence from the ASA-NBER Surveys

Cheung, Yin-Wong - 1999

We examine the properties of the ASA-NBER forecasts for several US macroeconomic variables, specifically: (i) are the actual and forecast series integrated of the same order; (ii) are they cointegrated, and; (iii) is the cointegrating vector consistent with long run unitary elasticity of...

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Answering the Critics : Yes, ARCH Models Do Provide Good Volatility Forecasts

Andersen, Torben G. - 1997

Volatility permeates modern financial theories and decision making processes. As such, accurate measures and good forecasts of future volatility are critical for the implementation and evaluation of asset pricing theories. In response to this, a voluminous literature has emerged for modeling the...

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Comparing Predictive Accuracy

Diebold, Francis X. - 1994

Using research designs patterned after randomized experiments, many recent economic studies examine outcome measures for treatment groups and comparison groups that are not randomly assigned. By using variation in explanatory variables generated by changes in state laws, government draft...

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Evidence on Structural Instability in Macroeconomic Time Series Relations

Stock, James H. - 1994

An experiment is performed to assess the prevalence of instability in univariate and bivariate macroeconomic time series relations and to ascertain whether various adaptive forecasting techniques successfully handle any such instability. Formal tests for instability and out-of-sample forecasts...

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The Predictive Ability of Several Models of Exchange Rate Volatility

West, Kenneth D. - 1994

We compare the out-of-sample forecasting performance of univariate homoskedastic, GARCH, autoregressive and nonparametric models for conditional variances, using five bilateral weekly exchange rates for the dollar, 1973-1989. For a one week horizon, GARCH models tend to make slightly more...

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