subjective choices in the setting of the prior. Moreover, it performs very well both in terms of out-of-sample forecasting …

distribution. As an empirical illustration, we use euro area data and compare the forecasting performance of the New Area …

story-telling and policy analysis were in the forefront of applications since its inception, the forecasting perspective of … models are inferior in ex-ante forecasting a crisis. Surprisingly however, it turned out that not all but those models which … only detect the turning point of the Austrian business cycle early in 2008 but they also succeeded in forecasting the …

methodological contributions, especially with regard to economic forecasting. …

variables in the model, rather than just on future paths as it is usually done in the conditional forecasting literature. The … forecasting densities of a BVAR and a DSGE model on information about the marginal densities of future oil prices. The results …-inflation over the considered forecasting horizon. Finally, a real-time forecasting exercise yields that introducing market …