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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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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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Macroeconomic forecasting and structural change

Gambetti, Luca; D’Agostino, Antonello; Giannone, Domenico - 2010

The aim of this paper is to assess whether explicitly modeling structural change increases the accuracy of macroeconomic forecasts. We produce real time out-of-sample forecasts for inflation, the unemployment rate and the interest rate using a Time-Varying Coefficients VAR with Stochastic...

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Predicting recession probabilities with financial variables over multiple horizons

Fornari, Fabio; Lemke, Wolfgang - 2010

short-term interest rate, stock returns or corporate bond spreads. The forecasting performance is very good for the United …

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