Recent research showing negative correlations between detrended output and prices during the postwar period has brought … into question the conventional wisdom that prices are procyclical. However, this finding has been shown to be sensitive to … the sample period considered. This paper examines the relationship between output and prices in the frequency domain …

single data series. In principle, information about other economic indicators should be useful in forecasting a particular … growth at horizons of 3, 12 and 24 months ahead. These forecasts are then compared to simple forecasting rules. …

for forecasting US inflation in the early to mid 2000s. We explore a wide range of different definitions of money …, including different methods of aggregation and different collections of included monetary assets. In our forecasting experiment … forecasting models and are then compared to forecasts from a naive random walk model. The best models were non …