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expectation models, households in the sticky information environment update their expectations sporadically rather than … experts? inflation expectations, we find that the model adequately captures the dynamics of household inflation expectations …
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We examine the behavior of forecasts for real GDP growth using a large panel of individual forecasts from 30 advanced and emerging economies during 1989-2010. Our main findings are as follows. First, our evidence does not support the validity of the sticky information model (Mankiw and Reis,...
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contribute to anchoring of expectations about nominal variables; its effects on disagreement about real variables are moderate. …
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Most macroeconomic data is continuously revised as additional information becomes available. We suggest that revisions of data is an increasingly important source of uncertainty about the state of the economy and offer an alternative channel of uncertainty - data uncertainty. This paper adds on...
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period 1970Q1 - 2003Q4 for ten macroeconomic variables. The years 2000 - 2003 are used as forecasting period. A range of … different univariate forecasting methods is applied. Some of them are based on linear autoregressive models and we also use some … forecasting variables which need considerable adjustments in their levels when joining German and EMU data. These results suggest …
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We propose a new algorithm which allows easy estimation of Vector Autoregressions (VARs) featuring asymmetric priors and time varying volatilities, even when the cross sectional dimension of the system N is particularly large. The algorithm is based on a simple triangularisation which allows to...
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an accurate calibration of forecast confidence intervals, and is better suited at long horizons and in high …
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of monetary policy shocks, and we observe that the reaction of GDP, the GDP deflator, inflation expectations and long …
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focusing on forecasting inflation and GDP growth in a panel of countries confirms this finding. …
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