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yields predicts risk premia in both short-term interest rates and exchange rates at return-forecasting horizons of up to six … months for all (but one) countries and currencies in our sample. Our single forecasting factor loads positively on the short …
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; (iv) newer generation Phillips curve models with several time-varying features are a promising avenue for forecasting …
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We consider simple methods to improve the growth nowcasts and forecasts obtained by mixed frequency MIDAS and UMIDAS models with a variety of indicators during the Covid-19 crisis and recovery period, such as combining forecasts across various specifications for the same model and/or across...
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become tighter. We use quantile regression and the skewed t-distribution and evaluate the forecasting properties of models …
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reversion and assume that relative prices are unchanged. Direct forecasting or panel data techniques are better than the random …
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This paper predicts phases of the financial cycle by combining a continuous financial stress measure in a Markov switching framework. The debt service ratio and property market variables signal a transition to a high financial stress regime, while economic sentiment indicators provide signals...
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Early-warning models most commonly optimize signaling thresholds on crisis probabilities. The expost threshold optimization is based upon a loss function accounting for preferences between forecast errors, but comes with two crucial drawbacks: unstable thresholds in recursive estimations and an...
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Previous assessments of nominal exchange rate determination, following Meese and Rogoff (1983) have focused upon a narrow set of models. Cheung et al. (2005) augmented the usual suspects with productivity based models, and “behavioral equilibrium exchange rate” models, and assessed...
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relative to other predictors generally improving in the post-2012 period. An out-of-sample forecasting exercise indicates that …, when monetary and credit aggregates are loaded directly in the forecasting equation, the additional gains over the … and credit variables in forecasting inflation, even if their information content is diluted in a much broader pool of …
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provide more robust forecasts. We investigate this issue for forecasts from a range of short-term forecasting models. Our …
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