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The Great Recession and the subsequent period of subdued GDP growth in most advanced economies have highlighted the need for macroeconomic forecasters to account for sudden and deep recessions, periods of higher macroeconomic volatility, and fluctuations in trend GDP growth. In this paper, we...
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This paper builds an innovative composite world trade cycle index (WTI) by means of a dynamic factor model to monitor … and perform short-term forecasts in real time of world trade growth of both goods and (usually neglected) services. The …. Simulations analysis in pseudo real-time suggests that: i) the global trade index is a useful tool to track and forecast world …
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-carbon economy, namely, orderly transition, disorderly transition, and no transition (hot house world). We describe three systemic … risk metrics computed from a copula-based model of dependence between financial firm returns and financial asset market … returns: climate transition expected returns, climate transition value-at-risk, and climate transition expected shortfall …
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The first Global Climate Strike on March 15, 2019 has represented a historical turn in climate activism. We investigate the cross-section of European stock price reactions to this event. Looking at a large sample of European firms, we find that the unanticipated success of this event caused a...
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This study provides evidence on the existence of a negative Greenium, i.e. a green risk premium, based on European … portfolio exposure to climate risk and hedge against it. We estimate that even in a rather benign scenario, there would be …
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major economies (USA, UK, Germany, France, Japan, Italy). The performance of Adaptive Trees is on average broadly similar to …
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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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