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Predicting Ordinary and Severe Recessions with a Three-State Markov-Switching Dynamic Factor Model. An Application to the German Business Cycle
Carstensen, Kai - 2017
We estimate a Markow-switching dynamic factor model with three states based on six leading business cycle indicators for Germany preselected from a broader set using the Elastic Net soft-thresholding rule. The three states represent expansions, normal recessions and severe recessions. We show...
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Measuring Uncertainty of a Combined Forecast and Some Tests for Forecaster Heterogeneity
Lahiri, Kajal - 2015
We have argued that from the standpoint of a policy maker, the uncertainty of using the average forecast is not the variance of the average, but rather the average of the variances of the individual forecasts that incorporate idiosyncratic risks. With a slight reformulation of the loss function...
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Identification and Estimation of the Environmental Kuznets Curve : Pairwise Differencing to Deal with Nonlinearity and Nonstationarity
Sen, Suphi - 2016
We propose an estimation strategy that accounts for two major problems raised in the empirical literature testing for … problems. Second, we apply nonlinear-nonstationary parametric and non-parametric estimation techniques to estimate the pairwise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012993697
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Assessing the Macroeconomic Forecasting Performance of Boosting - Evidence for the United States, the Euro Area, and Germany
Buchen, Teresa - 2013
The use of large datasets for macroeconomic forecasting has received a great deal of interest recently. Boosting is one possible method of using high-dimensional data for this purpose. It is a stage-wise additive modelling procedure, which, in a linear specification, becomes a variable selection...
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The Yield Spread Puzzle and the Information Content of SPF Forecasts
Lahiri, Kajal - 2013
While the yield spread has long been recognized as a good predictor of recessions, it seems to have been largely overlooked by professional forecasters. We examine this puzzle, established by Rudebusch and Williams (2009), in a data-rich environment including not just the yield spread but many...
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Forecasting Random Walks Under Drift Instability
Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2011
This paper considers forecast averaging when the same model is used but estimation is carried out over different … estimation windows. It develops theoretical results for random walks when their drift and/or volatility are subject to one or … more structural breaks. It is shown that compared to using forecasts based on a single estimation window, averaging over …
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Cointegration Analysis with Mixed-Frequency Data
Seong, Byeongchan; Ahn, Sung K.; Zadrozny, Peter A. - 2021
maximum likelihood estimation of the parameters in the model, we use an expectation maximization algorithm based on the state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317180
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The EMBI in Latin America : Fractional Integration, Non-Linearities and Breaks
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2015
This paper analyses the main statistical properties of the Emerging Market Bond Index (EMBI), namely long-range dependence or persistence, non-linearities, and structural breaks, in four Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela). For this purpose it uses a fractional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009842
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Markov-Switching and the IFO Business Climate : The IFO Business Cycle Traffic Lights
Abberger, Klaus - 2010
Business cycle indicators are used to assess the economic situation of countries or regions. They are closely watched by the public, but are not easy to interpret. Does a current movement of the indicator signal a turning point or not? With the help of Markov Switching Models movements of...
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Should Transportation Output Be Included as Part of the Coincident Indicators System?
Lahiri, Kajal - 2011
With the increasing importance of the service-providing sectors, information from these sectors has become essential to the understanding of contemporary business cycles. This paper explores the usefulness of the transportation services output index (TSI) as an additional coincident indicator in...
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