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Testing for Parameter Instability and Structural Change in Persistent Predictive Regressions
Andersen, Torben; Varneskov, Rasmus Tangsgaard - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
variables may be fractionally integrated and the predictive relation may feature cointegration, we provide sup-Wald break tests …
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Are Macroeconomic Forecasts Informative? Cointegration Evidence from the ASA-NBER Surveys
Cheung, Yin-Wong - 1999
Treasury bill rate, housing starts, industrial production, inflation and their forecasts are trend stationary. The corporate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471881
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Improving GDP Measurement : A Forecast Combination Perspective
Aruoba, S. Boragan - 2011
Two often-divergent U.S. GDP estimates are available, a widely-used expenditure side version, GDPE, and a much less widely-used income-side version GDPI . We propose and explore a "forecast combination" approach to combining them. We then put the theory to work, producing a superior combined...
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Integration, Cointegration and the Forecast Consistency of Structural Exchange Rate Models
Cheung, Yin-Wong - 1997
, according to the Johansen procedure, cointegration fails to hold the farther out the forecasts extend. At the one year ahead …
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Biased Surveys
Valchev, Rosen; Gemmi, Luca - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We find evidence suggesting that surveys of professional forecasters are biased by strategic incentives. First, we find that individual forecasts overreact to idiosyncratic information but underreact to common information. Second, we show that this bias is not present in forecasts data that is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337840
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Risky Oil : It's All in the Tails
Baumeister, Christiane; Huber, Florian; Marcellino, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The substantial fluctuations in oil prices in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine have highlighted the importance of tail events in the global market for crude oil which call for careful risk assessment. In this paper we focus on forecasting tail risks in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014544801
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Four Centuries of Return Predictability
Golez, Benjamin - 2014
We combine annual stock market data for the most important equity markets of the last four centuries: the Netherlands/U.K. (1629-1812), U.K. (1813-1870) and U.S. (1871-2015). We show that dividend yields are stationary and consistently forecast returns. The documented predictability holds for...
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Real-Time Forecasting with a (Standard) Mixed-Frequency VAR During a Pandemic
Schorfheide, Frank; Song, Dongho - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We resuscitated the mixed-frequency vector autoregression (MF-VAR) developed in Schorfheide and Song (2015, JBES) to generate macroeconomic forecasts for the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic in real time. The model combines eleven time series observed at two frequencies: quarterly and monthly....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794563
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The Fisher Hypothesis and the Forecastability and Persistence of Inflation
Barsky, Robert B. - 1986
inflation rate is -.17. The corresponding correlation for the period 1950 to 1979 is .71. Inflation evolved from essentially a … stochastic process of inflation, rather than a change in any structural relationship between nominal rates and expectedi nflation …. I find little evidence of inflation non-neutrality in data from the gold standard period.This contradicts the conclusion …
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Efficient Inflation Estimation
Bryan, Michael F. - 1997
This paper investigates the use of trimmed means as high-frequency estimators of" inflation. The known characteristics … that simple averages of price data are" unlikely to produce efficient estimates of inflation. Trimmed means produce … superior estimates" of core inflation,' which we define as a long-run centered moving average of CPI and PPI" inflation. We …
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