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We document a substantial increase in downside risk to US economic growth over the last 30 years. By modelling secular trends and cyclical changes of the predictive density of GDP growth, we find an accelerating decline in the skewness of the conditional distributions, with significant,...
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benefit of the high frequency series, providing forecasting gains beyond those based on monthly variables alone …
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structural analysis and forecasting purposes. We study the evolution of inflation rates in several countries, using a novel model …
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forecasting ability of the model in real-time is compared with that of standard VARs and of daily quotes of economic derivatives …
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It has increasingly become standard practice to supplement point macroeconomic forecasts with an appraisal of the degree of uncertainty and the prevailing direction of risks. Several alternative approaches have been proposed in the literature to compute the probability distribution of...
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Recent empirical literature shows that key macro variables such as GDP and productivity display long memory dynamics. For DSGE models, we propose a ‘Generalized' Kalman Filter to deal effectively with this problem: our method connects to and innovates upon data-filtering techniques already...
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and forecasting the global outlook. Our main results are that (i) the rise of the emerging countries has sharply altered … the correlation of growth rates among the main economic areas; (ii) this is clearly detectable in forecasting equations as …
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predict the US monthly unemployment rate. We perform a deep out-of-sample forecasting comparison analyzing many models that …
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In this paper we explore the performance of bridge and factor models in forecasting quarterly aggregates in the very … targeted predictors using data reduction techniques as in Bai and Ng (2008). We then compare a Diffusion Index forecasting … these techniques to forecasting Italian GDP growth and its main components from the demand side and find that Bridge models …
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empirical application for the Italian quarterly GDP the short-term forecasting performance is evaluated against other mixed …
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