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This paper proposes new methodologies for evaluating out-of-sample forecasting performance that are robust to the … choice of the estimation window size. The methodologies involve evaluating the predictive ability of forecasting models over … application shows the usefulness of the methodologies for evaluating exchange rate models' forecasting ability. …
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We provide a new way to filter US inflation into trend and cycle components, based on extracting long-run forecasts from the Survey of Professional Forecasters. We operate the Kalman filter in reverse, beginning with observed forecasts, then estimating parameters, and then extracting the...
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This paper develops and applies tools to assess multivariate aspects of Bayesian Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) model forecasts and their ability to predict comovements among key macroeconomic variables. The authors construct posterior predictive checks to evaluate the calibration...
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Economists have tried to uncover stylized facts about people’s expectations, testing whether such expectations are rational. Tests in the early 1980s suggested that expectations were biased, and some economists took irrational expectations as a stylized fact. But, over time, the results of...
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The surge in fiscal deficits since 2008 has put a renewed focus on the authors’ understanding of fiscal policy. The interaction of fiscal and monetary policy during this period has also been the subject of much discussion and analysis. This paper gives new insight into past fiscal policy and...
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This paper proposes Bayesian forecasting in a vector autoregression using a democratic prior. This prior is chosen to …
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theory of forecasting suggests such a possibility. In a recent paper, Owen Lamont finds that forecasters in the Business Week … general theory of forecasting that accounts for both sets of results. …
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This paper presents new evidence on the benefits of conditioning quarterly model forecasts on monthly current-quarter data. On the basis of a quarterly Bayesian vector error corrections model, the findings indicate that such conditioning produces economically relevant and statistically...
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to density forecasting, and density forecast evaluation with known loss function. …
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