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In this paper we use the frequency domain Granger causality test of Breitung/Candelon (2006) to analyse short and long-run causality between energy prices and prices of food commodities. We find that the oil price Granger causes all the considered food prices. However, when controlling for...
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bank's own interest rate expectations. From a theoretical point of view, the latter should yield the highest forecast …
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The use of large datasets for macroeconomic forecasting has received a great deal of interest recently. Boosting is one possible method of using high-dimensional data for this purpose. It is a stage-wise additive modelling procedure, which, in a linear specification, becomes a variable selection...
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with zero restrictions) to forecast the relevant underlying variable(s), and in a second step to derive the probability of … a suitably defined turning point from the forecast probability density function. This approach will never fail …
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estimation of the different models, respectively. We find that overall the large Bayesian VAR provides the most precise forecasts … variable to be forecast. …
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This study analyzes the performance of the IMF World Economic Outlook forecasts for world output and the aggregates of … both the advanced economies and the emerging and developing economies. With a focus on the forecast for the current and the …
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method with the direct forecast of the aggregate, a forecast which aggregates the disaggregate forecasts and a direct … forecast which additionally uses information from factors obtained from the disaggregate components. A recursive pseudo …
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