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Global developments play an important role in domestic inflation rates. Previous literature has found that a … substantial amount of the variation in a large set of national inflation rates can be explained by a single global factor. However …, inflation volatility has been typically neglected, while it is clearly relevant both from a policy point of view and for …
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The study investigates the existence and extent of information rigidity in inflation forecasts among 25 developed and …
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) models, with and without financial frictions, for output growth and inflation in the period 1992 to 2011. We find strong …
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) models, with and without financial frictions, for output growth and inflation in the period 1992 to 2011. We find strong …
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for output growth and inflation from 1992 to 2011. We find strong evidence of time variation in the pool's weights …
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Forecasting the world economy is a difficult task given the complex interrelationships within and across countries. This paper proposes a number of approaches to forecast short-term changes in selected world economic variables and aims, first, at ranking various forecasting methods in terms of...
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Forecasting the world economy is a difficult task given the complex interrelationships within and across countries. This paper proposes a number of approaches to forecast short-term changes in selected world economic variables and aims, first, at ranking various forecasting methods in terms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159358
To examine whether including economic data on other countries could improve the forecast of U.S. GDP growth, we construct a large data set of 77 countries representing over 90 percent of global GDP. Our benchmark model is a dynamic factor model using U.S. data only, which we extend to include...
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important variable. GDP per capita and consumer inflation have increased in prominence whereas debt-to-GDP, stock market and …
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Commodity prices co-move, but the strength of this co-movement changes over time due to structural factors, like changing energy intensity in production and consumption as well as changing composition of underlying shocks. This paper explores whether econometric models that exploit this...
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