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Is forecasting with large models informative? : assessing the role of judgement in macroeconomic forecasts
Mestre, Ricardo; McAdam, Peter - 2008
We evaluate residual projection strategies in the context of a large-scale macro model of the euro area and smaller benchmark time-series models. The exercises attempt to measure the accuracy of model-based forecasts simulated both out-of-sample and in-sample. Both exercises incorporate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794046
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Is Forecasting with Large Models Informative? Assessing the Role of Judgement in Macroeconomic Forecasts
Mestre, Ricardo; McAdam, Peter - 2021
We evaluate residual projection strategies in the context of a large-scale macro model of the euro area and smaller benchmark time-series models. The exercises attempt to measure the accuracy of model-based forecasts simulated both out-of-sample and in-sample. Both exercises incorporate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316469
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News-driven business cycles in SVARs
Bunk, Patrick - 2011
Recent studies proposed news about future technology growth as the main driver of macroeconomic fluctuations. The identification of these news through stock prices in SVARs has been criticized in the past. Therefore, I propose a series of experiments to test that hypothesis by examining its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009229732
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Systematic monetary policy and the macroeconomic effects of shifts in loan-to-value ratios
Bachmann, Ruediger; Rüth, Sebastian - 2017
What are the macroeconomic consequences of changing aggregate lending standards in residential mortgage markets, as measured by loan-to-value (LTV) ratios? In a structural VAR, GDP and business investment increase following an expansionary LTV shock. Residential investment, by contrast, falls, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011646925
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Is forecasting with large models informative? Assessing the role of judgement in macroeconomic forecasts
Mestre, Ricardo; McAdam, Peter - 2008
We evaluate residual projection strategies in the context of a large-scale macro model of the euro area and smaller benchmark time-series models. The exercises attempt to measure the accuracy of model-based forecasts simulated both out-of-sample and in-sample. Both exercises incorporate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604996
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Trade exposure and the evolution of inflation dynamics
Gilchrist, Simon; Zakrajšek, Egon - 2019
The diminished sensitivity of inflation to changes in resource utilization that has been observed in many advanced … examine this "globalization" hypothesis using both aggregate U.S. data on measures of inflation and economic slack and a rich … the overall decline in responsiveness of aggregate inflation to fluctuations in economic activity. This flattening of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012017495
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Inflation Dynamics in Advanced Economies : A Decomposition into Cyclical and Non-Cyclical Factors
Lian, Weicheng; Freitag, Andreas - 2022
Inflation and unemployment rate were largely disconnected between 2000 and 2019 in advanced economies. We decompose … core inflation into two parts based on the cyclical sensitivity of CPI components and document several salient facts: (i … inflation and unemployment rate. The approach has potential to help understand forces shaping price pressures during the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082956
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News-driven business cycles in SVARs
Bunk, Patrick - 2011
Recent studies proposed news about future technology growth as the main driver of macroeconomic fluctuations. The identification of these news through stock prices in SVARs has been criticized in the past. Therefore, I propose a series of experiments to test that hypothesis by examining its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281600
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Money and inflation : some critical issues
McCallum, Bennett T.; Nelson, Edward - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008934716
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Measuring financial cycles in a model-based analysis : empirical evidence for the United States and the euro area
Galati, Gabriele; Hindrayanto, Irma; Koopman, Siem Jan; … - 2016
We adopt an unobserved components time series model to extract financial cycles for the United States and the five largest euro area countries over the period 1970 to 2014. We find that credit, the credit-to-GDP ratio and house prices have medium-term cycles which share a few common statistical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011456728