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Forecasting World Trade : Direct versus 'Bottom-Up' Approaches
Dees, Stephane - 2013
In a globalised world economy, global factors have become increasingly important to explain trade flows at the expense … world trade is directly forecasted at the aggregate levels, relative to quot;bottom-upquot; approaches, where world trade … results from an aggregation of country-specific forecasts. Factor models in particular prove rather accurate, where the …
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Forecasting economic activity with mixed frequency Bayesian VARs
Brave, Scott A.; Butters, R. Andrew; Justiniano, Alejandro - 2016
Mixed frequency Bayesian vector autoregressions (MF-BVARs) allow forecasters to incorporate a large number of mixed frequency indicators into forecasts of economic activity. This paper evaluates the forecast performance of MF-BVARs relative to surveys of professional forecasters and investigates...
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Combined density nowcasting in an uncertain economic environment
Aastveit, Knut Are; Ravazzolo, Francesco; Dijk, Herman … - 2014
We introduce a Combined Density Nowcasting (CDN) approach to Dynamic Factor Models (DFM) that in a coherent way accounts for time-varying uncertainty of several model and data features in order to provide more accurate and complete density nowcasts. The combination weights are latent random...
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Forecasting Economic Activity with Mixed Frequency Bayesian Vars
Brave, Scott A. - 2020
Mixed frequency Bayesian vector autoregressions (MF-BVARs) allow forecasters to incorporate a large number of mixed frequency indicators into forecasts of economic activity. This paper evaluates the forecast performance of MF-BVARs relative to surveys of professional forecasters and investigates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012855407
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Identification and Real-Time Forecasting of Norwegian Business Cycles
Aastveit, Knut Are - 2015
We define and forecast classical business cycle turning points for the Norwegian economy. When defining reference business cycles, we compare a univariate and a multivariate Bry-Boschan approach with univariate Markov-switching models and Markov-switching factor models. On the basis of a...
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Nowcasting in a Pandemic Using Non-Parametric Mixed Frequency VARs
Huber, Florian; Koop, Gary; Onorante, Luca; Pfarrhofer, … - 2021
This paper develops Bayesian econometric methods for posterior inference in non-parametric mixed frequency VARs using additive regression trees. We argue that regression tree models are ideally suited for macroeconomic nowcasting in the face of extreme observations, for instance those produced...
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Tracking economic activity with alternative high-frequency data
Eckert, Florian; Kronenberg, Philipp; Mikosch, Heiner; … - 2020
Most macroeconomic indicators failed to capture the sharp economic fluctuations during the Corona crisis in a timely manner. Instead, alternative high-frequency data have been used, aiming to monitor the economic situation. However, these data are often only loosely related to the business cycle...
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Nowcasting in a pandemic using non-parametric mixed frequency VARs
Huber, Florian; Koop, Gary; Onorante, Luca; Pfarrhofer, … - 2021
This paper develops Bayesian econometric methods for posterior inference in non-parametric mixed frequency VARs using additive regression trees. We argue that regression tree models are ideally suited for macroeconomic nowcasting in the face of extreme observations, for instance those produced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012405305
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Nowcasting in a pandemic using non-parametric mixed frequency VARs
Huber, Florian; Koop, Gary; Onorante, Luca; Pfarrhofer, … - 2021
This paper develops Bayesian econometric methods for posterior inference in non-parametric mixed frequency VARs using additive regression trees. We argue that regression tree models are ideally suited for macroeconomic nowcasting in the face of extreme observations, for instance those produced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012501159
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Exploiting the monthly data flow in structural forecasting
Giannone, Domenico; Monti, Francesca; Reichlin, Lucrezia - 2015
This paper develops a framework that allows us to combine the tools provided by structural models for economic interpretation and policy analysis with those of reduced-form models designed for nowcasting. We show how to map a quarterly dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model into a...
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