directional forecasts can provide a useful framework to assess the economic forecast value when loss functions (or success … directional forecast value is a readily available alternative to the commonly used squared error loss criterion. -- Directional … forecasts ; directional forecast value ; forecast evaluation ; economic forecast value ; mean squared forecast error ; mean …

output gap estimates and forecast horizons, the results point clearly to a lack of any usefulness of real-time output gap … forecast real GDP growth, particularly in the short term, and some appear also useful in the medium run. No single output gap …

; Markov-switching ; Auxiliary information ; Model averaging ; Inflation forecast ; Real-time analysis …

This paper attempts to evaluate the information content of money for the forecast of inflation, output, investment and … their forecast performance. The evaluation employs Granger-causality tests, stability tests and historical out …-of-sample forecasts. On balance the information content of money appears to be rather limited. An improvement of the forecast is confined …

The paper uses dynamic quantile regressions to estimate and forecast the conditional distribution of euro …