This paper analyzes the term deposit sterilizing open market operations conducted by the Eurosystem between May 2010 and June 2014 in the context of the Securities Market Program (SMP). The SMP operations involved outright purchases of government debt securities in the secondary market with a...

Aufgrund der einzel- und gesamtwirtschaftlichen Relevanz von Zinsänderungen ist das Interesse an Zinsprognosen traditionell sehr groß. Dennoch finden sich in der wissenschaftlichen Literatur nur relativ wenige Studien, welche die Prognosegüte ökonometrischer Verfahren "out of sample"...

Density forecasts have become quite important in economics and finance. For example, such forecasts play a central role in modern financial risk management techniques like Value at Risk. This paper suggests a regression based density forecast evaluation framework as a simple alternative to other...