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In economics, common factors are often assumed to underlie the co-movements of a set of macroeconomic variables. For this reason, many authors have used estimated factors in the construction of prediction models. In this paper, we begin by surveying the extant literature on diffusion indexes. We...
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Diffusion index models have received considerable attention from both theoreticians and empirical econometricians in recent years. One reason for this is that datasets with many variables are increasingly becoming available and being utilized for economic modelling, and another is that common...
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Central banks regularly monitor select financial and macroeconomic variables in order to obtain early indication of the impact of monetary policies. This practice is discussed on the Federal Reserve Bank of New York website, for example, where one particular set of macroeconomic indicators is...
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that the U.N. makes in the future. Various descriptive measures of the forecast error data set are presented and methods … satisfactory for the majority of countries. However, relatively laxge forecast errors occurred mainly in African countries. In some …
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optimizer. The mathematical motivation for such hybrid networks is presented, using the Kolmogorov theory of metric entropy. As … options written on the S&P 500 stock index. While option pricing theory typically requires a highly complex statistical model …
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The paper examines over seventy episodes of current account adjustment in industrial and major emerging market economies. It argues that these episodes were characterised by strongly divergent economic developments. To reduce this divergence, the paper classifies episodes with similar...
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We suggest an alternative use of disaggregate information to forecast the aggregate variable of interest, that is to … findings and analyse why forecasting the aggregate using information on its disaggregate components improves forecast accuracy … of the aggregate forecast of euro area and US inflation in some situations, but not in others. …
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Using the statistical technique of fuzzy clustering, regimes of inflation and unemployment are explored for the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany between 1871 and 2009. We identify for each country three distinct regimes in inflation/unemployment space. There is considerable...
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Risk neutral densities (RND) can be used to forecast the price of the underlying basis for the option, or it may be …
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simultaneous confidence region generated from its forecast generating distribution. However, if the null model is only … matrix and the empirical distribution of the Mahalanobis distance of the path-forecast errors. These rectangular regions are …
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