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The non-stationarity of many macroeconomic time series has lead to an increased demand for economic models that are able to generate fragile equilibria. For instance, in this literature the natural unemployment rate is allowed to shift over time depending on past unemployment. Actually, many...
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produce large reductions in the out-of-sample prediction mean squared error and provides a useful alternative to forecasting …
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We propose a measure of predictability based on the ratio of the expected loss of a short-run forecast to the expected loss of a long-run forecast. This predictability measure can be tailored to the forecast horizons of interest, and it allows for general loss functions, univariate or...
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combine the best forecasting tools with the possibility of incorporating their own judgement. In this context, we provide …
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We document the empirical properties of revisions to major macroeconomic variables in the United States. Our findings suggest that they do not satisfy simple desirable statistical properties. In particular, we find that these revisions do not have a zero mean, which indicates that the initial...
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This paper introduces a new regression model - Markov-switching mixed data sampling (MS-MIDAS) - that incorporates regime changes in the parameters of the mixed data sampling (MIDAS) models and allows for the use of mixed-frequency data in Markov-switching models. After a discussion of...
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model forecast should become the benchmark for forecasting horse races. We compare the real-time forecasting accuracy of the … forecasting models is efficient. Our second finding is that there is no single best forecasting method. For example, typically … simple AR models are most accurate at short horizons and DSGE models are most accurate at long horizons when forecasting …
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While forecasting is a common practice in academia, government and business alike, practitioners are often left … wondering how to choose the sample for estimating forecasting models. When we forecast inflation in 2014, for example, should we … time series, and the forecasting performance is often quite sensitive to the choice of such window size. In this paper, we …
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for forecasting GDP growth at short-term horizons in the euro area. We discuss three sets of empirical results. First we … forecast revisions. Third we design a pseudo out of sample forecasting exercise and examine point and density forecast accuracy …
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Much has been written about why economists failed to predict the latest financial and real crisis. Reading the recent literature, it seems that the crisis was so obvious that economists must have been blind when looking at data not to see it coming. In this paper, we illustrate this failure by...
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