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The quantity theory of money predicts a positive relationship between monetary growth and inflation over long-run horizons. However, in the short-run, transitory shocks to either money or inflation can obscure the inflationary signal stemming from money. The spectral analysis of time series...
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find a higher average forecast accuracy of models that incorporate information on inflation expectations from the ECB's SPF … and Consensus Economics compared to their counterparts that do not. The gains in forecast accuracy from incorporating … households does not lead to systematic improvements in forecast performance. Individual models we consider are typically better …
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We compare direct forecasts of HICP and HICP excluding energy and food in the euro area and five member countries to aggregated forecasts of their main components from large Bayesian VARs with a shared set of predictors. We focus on conditional point and density forecasts, in line with...
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forecasting daily electricity prices in two of the main European markets, Germany and Italy. We do that by means of mixed …
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In the immediate wake of the Great Recession we didn't see the disinflation that most models predicted and, subsequently, we didn't see the inflation they predicted. We show that these puzzles disappear in a Vector Autoregressive model that properly accounts for domestic and global factors. Such...
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We estimate the effects of interest rate forward guidance (FG) using a parsimonious VAR, augmented with survey forecast …
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The aim of this paper is twofold. First, for West Germany, France, Italy and US, we econometrically select within a ….1 percent quarterly on average at most to a 1 percentage change in the expenditure or revenue ratio). In Italy, the US and …
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at a time-varying VAR model of Italy's relative performance compared with the rest of the euro area, spanning from 1976 … ; Italy …
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Sims and Zha (1999, 2006), the empirical evidence for the U.S., the U.K., Germany, and Italy shows that it is important to … Italy. -- Bayesian Structural VAR ; fiscal policy ; housing prices ; stock prices …
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