This paper evaluates the real-time performance of the Delhi School of Economics-Economic Cycle Research Institute (DSE-ECRI) Indian Leading Index for exports for predicting cyclical swings in Indian exports growth. The index comprises the 36-country real effective exchange rate and leading...

This paper examines various measures of synchronisation of recessions, including clustering of the onset of recession across economies, proportion of economies in expansion and the diffusion index of international coincident indexes, and shows that the recent global recession is possibly the...

Recent empirical studies have shown that intangible capital plays an important role in explaining productivity gains that have occurred during the last two decades. By introducing intangible capital in an otherwise standard theoretical real business cycle model, this paper aims to provide a...

Most empirical investigations of the business cycles in the United States have excluded the dimension of asymmetric conditional volatility. This paper analyses the volatility dynamics of the US business cycle by comparing the performance of various multivariate generalised autoregressive...

Constructing bootstrap confidence intervals for impulse response functions (IRFs) from structural vector autoregression (SVAR) models has become standard practice in empirical macroeconomic research. The accuracy of such confidence intervals can deteriorate severely, however, if the bootstrap...

This study aims to make out-of-sample forecasts of recessions using the data of Turkey between 1986-2010. Recession forecast is important for decision makers in every level since it increases efficiency of decision making. Forecasting method used in this study is Qual-VAR method which includes...

This paper presents the results of a Computable General Equilibrium model simulation built to Venezuela. The model is exemplified by the calibration and simulation of an open economy with three institutional actors (households, firms and government) and three productive sectors (oil,...

This paper presents a simple disequilibrium model in the primary housing market, calibrated to the Warsaw market. Our aim is to point out that the primary housing market, due to the long construction process is always in disequilibrium, which has important policy implications. We discuss the...

A dolgozat áttekintés nyújt a dinamikus, sztochasztikus, általános egyensúlyi mo dellek (DSGE) alapját biztosító elvekről, s azokról a tényezőkről, melyek az alapmo dellt kiegészítve a rendszert gyakorlati használatra alkalmassá teszik. Néhány pél dán keresztül bemutatja...

A tanulmányban restriktív modellfeltevésekkel hasonlítjuk össze a különféle dezinflációs stratégiák, forgatókönyvek költségeit. A számításokhoz kiindulási alapként Benczúr-Simon-Várpalotai [2002] „kisméretű makromodellje” szolgál, amelynek aggregált kibocsátási...