We forecast economic activity in Argentina on a quarterly real-time basis using dynamic factors models (DFM) (Blanco et al. 2018) and evaluate their forecasting performance during the COVID19 pandemic of 2020. We compare the results of forecasts based on a pre-pandemic estimation of the...

Después de la ejecución del programa de ajuste fiscal y macroeconómico aplicado entre 1999 y 2002, y de las medidas económicas tomadas por la actual administración, se conoce que el país no se encuentra aún sobre una senda fiscal sostenible. Este documento recapitula integralmente el...

This document analyzes inflation, exchange rate, interest rate, and GDP growth forecasts from the monthly Survey of Specialists in Economics from the Private Sector, maintained by Banco de M´exico. The study concentrates on the mean across forecasters for the period from January 1995 to April...