Eight years have passed since the European Central Bank (ECB) launched its Survey of Professional Forecasters (SPF). The SPF asks a panel of approximately 75 forecasters located in the European Union (EU) for their short- to longer-term expectations for macroeconomic variables such as euro area...

Current best practice in central banking views a high level of monetary policy predictability as desirable. A clear distinction, however, has to be made between short-term and longer-term predictability. While short-term predictability can be narrowly defined as the ability of the public to...

This paper evaluates different models for the short-term forecasting of real GDP growth in ten selected European countries and the euro area as a whole. Purely quarterly models are compared with models designed to exploit early releases of monthly indicators for the nowcast and forecast of...

In January 2007 the International Monetary Fund (IMF) published, on an ad hoc basis, a series of financial soundness indicators (FSIs) based on a common methodology (the IMF compilation Guide) for 62 countries, including all 27 European Union countries. The European Central Bank (ECB), jointly...

Die Konjunkturprognosen für das Jahr 2001 lagen weit neben der tatsächlichen Wirtschaftsentwicklung. Dies wurde der Prognostikerzunft als eklatantes Versagen vorgehalten. Doch eine mittelfristige Qualitätskontrolle der Prognosen des Sachverständigenrats, der Arbeitsgemeinschaft...

The specification of macro migration models and, hence, forecasts of migration potentials differ largely in the literature. Two main differences characterise macro migration models: first, whether migration flows or stocks are used as the dependent variable, and, second, whether the...

GDP forecasters face tough choices over which leading indicators to follow and which forecasting models to use. To help resolve these issues, we examine a range of monthly indicators to forecast quarterly GDP growth in a major emerging economy, Russia. Numerous useful indicators are identified...

Entwicklung eines quantitativen Modells zur Spread-Prognose von Credit Default Swaps am Beispiel von Banken (Sina Birk) - Analyse der Blockhain-Technologie und Einsatzmöglichkeiten in der Tullius Walden Bank AG (Lara Dominique Lydia Bolesch) - Analyse der Auswirkungen negativer Zinsen auf die...

Optimal forecasts are, under a squared error loss, conditional expectations of the unknown future values of interest. When stochastic demographic models are used in macroeconomic analyses, it becomes important to be able to handle updated forecasts. That is, when population development turns out...