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application Insights for Search. The forecasting performance of the new indicator is assessed relative to the two most common … Index. The results show that in almost all conducted in-sample and out-of-sample forecasting experiments the Google …
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their forecasting properties for the policy rates of the European Central Bank. In this respect the basic rules, results …
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We propose a prior for VAR models that exploits the panel structure of macroeconomic time series while also providing shrinkage towards zero to address overfitting concerns. The prior is flexible as it detects shared dynamics of individual variables across endogenously determined groups of...
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, inflation expectations, exchange rate changes and stock market volatility among others. Hence, forecasting the price of gold is … allows both the forecasting model and the coefficients to change over time. Based on this framework, we systematically … measure of the forecasting performance. We carefully assess which predictors are relevant for forecasting at different points …
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This paper analyzes the forecasting performance of financial market data in comparison to other indicator groups to … evaluate the forecasting performance using a significance test. In addition, we investigate the stability of forecasting models …-term forecasting, especially for the US and longer forecast horizons. Nevertheless, the results indicate that the Great Recession was …
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literature was found to have promising forecasting abilities, it is possible to further improve the performance if the … coefficient adjustment. With this calibration of the Kalman filter model the short-term out-ofsample forecasting accuracy can be …
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estimators as ordinary least squares as well as autoregressive models in forecasting performance. …
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using Bayesian estimation methods. As forecasting benchmarks we take the Smets-Wouters model (2007) and a VAR model. The …
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This paper analyses the link between the VDAX as a proxy for European financial uncertainty and the number of terror incidents in Western Europe. Considering data of the Global Terrorism Database, the number of terror incidents does - on average - not affect financial uncertainty. In contrast,...
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We investigate the predictive power of several leading indicators in order to forecast industrial production in Germany. In addition, we compare their predictive performance with variables from two competing categories, namely macroeconomic and financial variables. The predictive power within...
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