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This paper presents a forecasting exercise that assesses the predictive potential of a daily price index based on …
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outperforms popular benchmarks and is at par with the Survey of Professional Forecasters in forecasting inflation. Real rates …
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- and hard-threshold algorithms improves the forecasting performance, especially during periods of economic crisis. While a … effect on forecasting performance, all the more, if the set of indicators becomes unbalanced. …
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This paper discusses how the forecast accuracy of a Bayesian vector autoregression (BVAR) is affected by introducing the zero lower bound on the federal funds rate. As a benchmark I adopt a common BVAR specification, including 18 variables, estimated shrinkage, and no nonlinearity. Then I...
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This paper analyzes the forecasting performance of financial market data in comparison to other indicator groups to … evaluate the forecasting performance using a significance test. In addition, we investigate the stability of forecasting models …-term forecasting, especially for the US and longer forecast horizons. Nevertheless, the results indicate that the Great Recession was …
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In this paper we present a methodology which can help to improve the assessment of the current economic situation. We propose an approach which combines multivariate single equations to forecast the monthly growth rate of industrial production with a density forecast. This allows to estimate the...
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This paper documents GDPNow, a "nowcasting" model for gross domestic product (GDP) growth that synthesizes the "bridge equation" approach relating GDP subcomponents to monthly source data with the factor model approach used by Giannone, Reichlin, and Small (2008). The GDPNow model forecasts GDP...
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best overall performance both in terms of forecasting accuracy and in matching (future) survey forecasts. …
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encouraging. In a pseudo out-of-sample exercise, our approach beats relevant benchmarks for forecasting CPI inflation and an …
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pools, and use it to investigate the relative forecasting performance of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE …
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