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the adjustment of exchange rate expectations. Our findings are robust to different forecasting horizons and point to an …This paper analyzes the role of uncertainty on both exchange rate expectations and forecast errors of professionals for …
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inflation expectations of firms and households. Our results reveal that the link between reporting about inflation and changes … in inflation expectations is time-dependent. During periods of intensive newspaper coverage of inflation developments, a … correlation with inflation expectations emerges that does not exist at other times. Such correlations are evident after the …
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The production of electricity on the basis of renewable energy technologies is a classic example of an impure public good. It is often discriminatively financed by industrial and household consumers, such as in Germany, where the energy-intensive sector benefits from a far-reaching exemption...
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Many policy interventions in the environmental sector aim at changing environmental preferences, because these provide the basis for adopting environmental conservation behavior or technologies. To evaluate these changes, standard measurement tools in survey-based impact evaluations have their...
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Exemptions from costly policy measures are frequently applied to alleviate financial burdens to specific market participants. Using a stated-choice experiment with around 6,000 German household heads, we test how exemptions for low-income households and energy-intensive companies influence the...
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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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, 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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- and hard-threshold algorithms improves the forecasting performance, especially during periods of economic crisis. While a … effect on forecasting performance, all the more, if the set of indicators becomes unbalanced. …
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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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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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