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The financial crisis 2008-2009 and the European sovereign debt crisis have shown that stress on financial markets is important for analyzing and forecasting economic activity. Since financial stress is not directly observable but is presumably reflected in many financial market variables, it is...
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This paper tackles the prediction of the probability and severity of US recessions. We employ parsimonious Probit … conditional on optimistic and pessimistic scenarios for the horizon of interest. The severity of recessions is defined as the gap … severity has the interpretation of the output loss. Our results support that U.S. recessions are predictable to a great extent …
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This article presents a new Qual VAR model for incorporating information from qualitative and/or discrete variables in vector autoregressions. With a Qual VAR, it is possible to create dynamic forecasts of the qualitative variable using standard VAR projections. Previous forecasting methods for...
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recessions that appears superior to that embodied in the LEI Index, at least when simple rules of thumb are used to extract …
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