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New forecasting methods for an old problem : predicting 147 years of systemic financial crises
Plessis, Emile du; Fritsche, Ulrich - 2022
forecasting solutions. In this context, the paper develops new forecasting methods for an old problem by employing 13 machine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362692
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Outperforming IMF forecasts by the use of leading indicators : conference paper
Heinisch, Katja; Giesen, Sebastian; Lindner, Axel - 2014
This study analyzes the performance of the IMF World Economic Outlook forecasts for world output and the aggregates of both the advanced economies and the emerging and developing economies. With a focus on the forecast for the current and the next year, we examine whether IMF forecasts can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010484392
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Does central bank staff beat private forecasters? : conference paper
Shagi, Makram el-; Giesen, Sebastian; Jung, Alexander - 2013
This paper assesses the relative performance of central bank staff forecasts and of private forecasters for inflation and output. We show that the Federal Reserve (Fed), and less so the European Central Bank (ECB), has a significant information advantage concerning inflation and output...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339294
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The role of commodity prices in forecasting U.S. core inflation
Gospodinov, Nikolaj - 2016
This note documents a curious finding about the substantial forecast ability of a simple aggregator of three commodity futures prices for U.S. core inflation. The proposed aggregator reduces the out-of-sample root mean squared error for 12-month-ahead inflation forecasts of the benchmark AR(1)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011428084
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Dynamic prediction pools : an investigation of financial frictions and forecasting performance
Del Negro, Marco; Hasegawa, Raiden B.; Schorfheide, Frank - 2014
pools, and use it to investigate the relative forecasting performance of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010414783
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Do inflation expectations improve model-based inflation forecasts?
Bańbura, Marta; Leiva-Leon, Danilo; Menz, Jan-Oliver - 2021
Those of professional forecasters do. For a wide range of time series models for the euro area and its member states we find a higher average forecast accuracy of models that incorporate information on inflation expectations from the ECB's SPF and Consensus Economics compared to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012643485
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Does the Phillips curve help to forecast euro area inflation?
Bańbura, Marta; Bobeica, Elena - 2020
; (iv) newer generation Phillips curve models with several timevarying features are a promising avenue for forecasting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012299084
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Forecasting Macedonian inflation : evaluation of different models for short-term forecasting
Petrovska, Magdalena; Ramadani, Gani; Naumovski, Nikola; … - 2017
Republic of Macedonia (NBRM) for short-term forecasting of inflation - Autoregressive integrated moving average models … models' out-of-sample forecasting performance for the period 2012 q3 to 2016 q2 by using a number of forecast evaluation … to individual models' forecasts. Our results point to three important conclusions. First, the forecasting accuracy of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011717605
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Inflation decomposition model : application to Macedonian inflation
Andonova, Danica Unevska - 2018
results of the model's forecasting performance suggest that this model can be a useful analytical tool in the process of … to MAKPAM and enriches the set of tools for forecasting and monetary policy analysis in NBRM. In this paper we highlight …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011926820
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MIDAS modeling for core inflation forecasting
Libonatti, Luis - 2018
This paper presents a forecasting exercise that assesses the predictive potential of a daily price index based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011883796