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While conditional forecasting has become prevalent both in the academic literature and in practice (e.g., bank stress … testing, scenario forecasting), its applications typically focus on continuous variables. In this paper, we merge elements … from the literature on the construction and implementation of conditional forecasts with the literature on forecasting …
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The paper investigates the sources of macroeconomic forecast errors in Germany. The predictions of the so-called "six leading" research institutes are analyzed. The forecast errors are discussed within an aggregate demand/supply scheme. Structural Vector Autoregressive Models are estimated to...
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This paper quantifies how variation in real economic activity and inflation in the U.S. influenced the market prices of level, slope, and curvature risks in U.S. Treasury markets. We develop a novel arbitrage-free dynamic term structure model in which bond investment decisions are influenced by...
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The interest in empirical studies of monetary policy has increased in the last decade. The deregulation of financial markets and the increased use of explicit policy rules and targets have made monetary policy more transparent and interesting for economic analysis. This paper demonstrates how a...
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forecasting exercise show that the four approaches considered perform equally well and produce highly correlated forecasts …, meaning that non-pervasive shocks are of no helps in forecasting. We conclude that comovements captured by factor models are …
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The euro area is a new economic entity, the properties of which are less well known than those of individual countries. Using a recently developed macroeconometric model (AWM), which treats the euro area as a single economy, we document its response to monetary, fiscal, productivity and long-run...
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Asset prices are a valuable source of information about financial market participants.expectations about key macroeconomic variables. However, the presence of time-varying risk premia requires an adjustment of market prices to obtain the market’s rational assessment of future price and policy...
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, including statistical misspecification, non-identification of deep parameters, substantive inadequacy, weak forecasting …
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In this paper we extract latent factors from a large cross-section of commodity prices, including fuel and non-fuel commodities. We decompose each commodity price series into a global (or common) component, block-specific components and a purely idiosyncratic shock. We find that the bulk of the...
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This paper uses a panel VAR (PVAR) approach to estimating, analysing and forecasting price dynamics in four different …
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