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Indian Economic Outlook 2008-09 and 2009-10

Kumar, Rajiv - 2009

This paper provides an outlook for the Indian economy in the light of the extraordinary global financial crisis, that started in the US, but which has now transformed into the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. The Indian economy was slowing down even before the onset of global...

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Low Frequency and Weighted Likelihood Solutions for Mixed Frequency Dynamic Factor Models

Blasques, Francisco; Koopman, Siem Jan; Mallee, Max - 2014

The multivariate analysis of a panel of economic and financial time series with mixed frequencies is a challenging problem. The standard solution is to analyze the mix of monthly and quarterly time series jointly by means of a multivariate dynamic model with a monthly time index: artificial...

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Nowcasting and Forecasting Economic Growth in the Euro Area using Principal Components

Hindrayanto, Irma; Koopman, Siem Jan; de Winter, Jasper - 2014

short-term forecasting models. These empirical findings have been established for different macroeconomic data sets and … specification is most effective in its forecasting performance. Furthermore, the forecast performances of the different … extended empirical out-of-sample forecasting competition for quarterly growth of gross domestic product in the euro area and …

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Forecasting Macroeconomic Variables using Collapsed Dynamic Factor Analysis

Brauning, Falk; Koopman, Siem Jan - 2012

We explore a new approach to the forecasting of macroeconomic variables based on a dynamic factor state space analysis … forecasting purposes. Given a dynamic factor model as the data generation process, we provide Monte Carlo evidence for the finite … unbalanced panel contain quarterly and monthly variables. The forecasting accuracy is measured against a set of benchmark models …

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Forecasting Macroeconomic Variables Using Collapsed Dynamic Factor Analysis

Bräuning, Falk; Koopman, Siem Jan - 2012

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Minsky and the subprime mortgage crisis: The financial instability hypothesis in the era of financialization

Caverzasi, Eugenio - 2014

The aim of this paper is to develop a structural explanation of the subprime mortgage crisis, grounded on the combination of two apparently incompatible financial theories: the financial instability hypothesis by Hyman P. Minsky and the theory of capital market inflation by Jan Toporowski. Our...

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ECB worries/European woes: The economic consequences of parochial policy

Barbera, Robert J.; Holtham, Gerald - 2012

Financial market crises with the threat of a subsequent debt-deflation depression have occurred with increasing regularity in the United States from 1980 through the present. Almost reflexively, when confronted with such circumstances, US institutions and the policymakers that run them have...

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A Minskyan road to financial reform

Wray, L. Randall - 2011

In the aftermath of the global financial collapse that began in 2007, governments around the world have responded with reform. The outlines of Basel III have been announced, although some have already dismissed its reform agenda as being too little (and too late!). Like the proposed reforms in...

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Minsky's money manager capitalism and the global financial crisis

Wray, L. Randall - 2011

The world's worst economic crisis since the 1930s is now well into its third year. All sorts of explanations have been proffered for the causes of the crisis, from lax regulation and oversight to excessive global liquidity. Unfortunately, these narratives do not take into account the systemic...

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Minsky crisis

Wray, L. Randall - 2011

Stability is destabilizing. These three words concisely capture the insight that underlies Hyman Minsky's analysis of the economy's transformation over the entire postwar period. The basic thesis is that the dynamic forces of a capitalist economy are explosive and must be contained by...

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