Central bank intervention in the form of quantitative easing (QE) during times of low interest rates is a controversial topic. This paper introduces a novel approach to study the effectiveness of such unconventional measures. Using U.S. data on six key financial and macroeconomic variables...

This paper contributes a multivariate forecasting comparison between structural models and Machine-Learning-based tools. Specifically, a fully connected feed forward nonlinear autoregressive neural network (ANN) is contrasted to a well established dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE)...

Part I. Artificial intelligence : present and future -- 1. Human intelligence (HI) versus artificial intelligence (AI) and intelligence augmentation (IA) -- 2. Expecting the future: How AI's potential performance will shape current behavior -- Part II. The status of machine learning methods for...