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Putting the New Keynesian DSGE model to the real-time forecasting test

Kolasa, Marcin; Rubaszek, Michał; Skrzypczyński, Paweł - 2009

. Nevertheless, their forecasting properties are still barely explored. We fill this gap by comparing the quality of real … priors from a DSGE model. We show that the analyzed DSGE model is relatively successful in forecasting the US economy in the … accurate short-term forecasts for interest rates. Conditional on experts' now casts, however, the forecasting power of the DSGE …

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Exploring the international linkages of the euro area: a global VAR analysis

Dées, Stéphane; di Mauro, Filippo; Pesaran, Hashem; … - 2005

This paper presents a quarterly global model linking individual country vector errorcorrecting models in which the domestic variables are related to the country-specific foreign variables. The global VAR (GVAR) model is estimated for 26 countries, the euro area being treated as a single economy,...

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Interbank lending, credit risk premia and collateral

Heider, Florian; Hoerova, Marie - 2009

We study the functioning of secured and unsecured inter-bank markets in the presence of credit risk. The model generates empirical predictions that are in line with developments during the 2007-2009 financial crises. Interest rates decouple across secured and unsecured markets following an...

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Bank risk-taking, securitization, supervision and low interest rates: Evidence from the euro area and the U.S. lending standards

Maddaloni, Angela; Peydró, José-Luis - 2010

Using a unique dataset of the Euro area and the U.S. bank lending standards, we find that low (monetary policy) short-term interest rates soften standards, for household and corporate loans. This softening – especially for mortgages – is amplified by securitization activity, weak supervision...

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Nowcasting GDP and inflation: the real-time informational content of macroeconomic data releases

Giannone, Domenico; Reichlin, Lucrezia; Small, David H. - 2006

This paper formalizes the process of updating the nowcast and forecast on output and inflation as new releases of data become available. The marginal contribution of a particular release for the value of the signal and its precision is evaluated by computing "news" on the basis of an evolving...

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The yield curve as a predictor and emerging economies

Mehl, Arnaud - 2006

-of-sample forecasting performance. Differences across countries are seemingly linked to market liquidity. The paper further finds that the …

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Hierarchical Markov normal mixture models with applications to financial asset returns

Geweke, John; Amisano, Gianni - 2007

With the aim of constructing predictive distributions for daily returns, we introduce a new Markov normal mixture model in which the components are themselves normal mixtures. We derive the restrictions on the autocovariances and linear representation of integer powers of the time series in...

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Comparing and evaluating Bayesian predictive distributions of assets returns

Geweke, John; Amisano, Gianni - 2008

Bayesian inference in a time series model provides exact, out-of-sample predictive distributions that fully and coherently incorporate parameter uncertainty. This study compares and evaluates Bayesian predictive distributions from alternative models, using as an illustration five alternative...

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Risk-adjusted forecasts of oil prices

Pagano, Patrizio; Pisani, Massimiliano - 2009

This paper documents the existence of a significant forecast error on crude oil futures. We interpret it as a risk premium, which, in part, could have been explained by means of a real-time US business cycle indicator, such as the degree of capacity utilization in manufacturing. This result is...

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Optimal Prediction Pools

Geweke, John; Amisano, Gianni - 2009

A prediction model is any statement of a probability distribution for an outcome not yet observed. This study considers the properties of weighted linear combinations of n prediction models, or linear pools, evaluated using the conventional log predictive scoring rule. The log score is a concave...

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