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Forecasts of the rate of price inflation play a central role in the formulation of monetary policy, and forecasting inflation is a key job for economists at the Federal Reserve Board. This paper examines whether this job has become harder and, to the extent that it has, what changes in the...
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Many literatures investigate the causal impact of income on economic outcomes, for example in the context of intergenerational transmission or well-being and health. Some studies have proposed to use employer wage differentials and in particular industry affiliation as an instrument for income....
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and forecasting. Building on the theory of continuous-time arbitrage-free price processes and the theory of quadratic … volatility forecast, coupled with a parametric lognormal-normal mixture distribution implied by the theoretically and empirically …
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--they are not observed at the time that the forecast is made--but can nonetheless improve forecasting accuracy by reducing … standard examples of forecasting excess bond and equity returns. We find substantial improvements in out-of-sample forecast …
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forecasting movements in short-term interest rates. For brief forecast intervals, however, ex ante changes in long-term rates are …
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environment, leading to real-time forecast improvements relative to other methods of density forecast combination, such as …
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premium. We use this simple observation to forecast the equity-premium time series with the cross-sectional price of risk. We …
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and autocorrelation of error. The marginal forecast errors tend to increase, and the correlations between predictions and …
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Some previous analyses have suggested that the smoothing of tax rates over time would be a desirable guide for public debt management. One implication of this viewpoint is that future changes in tax rates would be unpredictable based on current information. This proposition is tested by...
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areas of India, and that farmers respond more strongly to the forecast where there is more forecast skill and not at all … when there is no skill. We show, using an IV strategy in which the Indian government forecast of monsoon rainfall serves as … compared with farmers without access to forecasts. Even modest improvements in forecast skill would substantially increase …
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