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-of-sample forecasting performance. Differences across countries are seemingly linked to market liquidity. The paper further finds that the …
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The paper argues in favor of significant budget deficits based on the understanding that the expansion of the 1990s was fueled by a great build-up of debt, and that this would eventually give way to a severe recession unless offset by a strong fiscal stimulus. In 2001, with the total government...
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This paper develops new error assessment methods to evaluate the performance of debt sustainability analyses (DSAs) for low-income countries (LICs) from 2005-2015. We find some evidence of a bias towards optimism for public and external debt projections, which was most appreciable for LICs with...
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The analysis here is founded on certain analogies with the Great Depression of the Thirties and four fundamental points: innovations, changes in the market forms, changes in income distribution and the sustainability of debts. The duration of prosperity depends first of all on the importance and...
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-of-sample forecasting performance. Differences across countries are seemingly linked to market liquidity. The paper further finds that the …
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The post-crisis environment has posed important challenges to standard forecasting models. In this paper, we exploit …-VAR and Augmented-(B)VARDSGE methods) and assess their use for forecasting the Spanish economy. Our empirical findings suggest … with (B)VAR methods does not give rise to any relevant gain in terms of forecasting accuracy. …
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represent nicely the two opposing forecasting philosophies. The DSGE model on the one hand has a strong theoretical economic …-horizon forecasting and structural models should be used in long-horizon forecasting. Our paper compareds both state-of-the art data …
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pools, and use it to investigate the relative forecasting performance of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE …
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This document gives a detailed account of the current version of the Hungarian Quarterly Projection Model (NEM). It describes the main building blocks, presents the forecast performance of the model and, finally, it illustrates the responses to the most important shocks the Hungarian economy may...
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