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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 …
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forecasting inflation, while the BVARX model fares better in forecasting …
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-on-quarter growth rate in Switzerland. It also assesses the informational content of macroeconomic data releases for forecasting of the … for GDP forecasting, although their ranking depends on the underlying transformation of monthly indicators from which the …
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concept of the guaranteed upper risk of forecasting and the d-admissible distortion level is defined here. In order to make …
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This paper documents GDPNow, a "nowcasting" model for gross domestic product (GDP) growth that synthesizes the "bridge equation" approach relating GDP subcomponents to monthly source data with the factor model approach used by Giannone, Reichlin, and Small (2008). The GDPNow model forecasts GDP...
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The development of models for variables sampled at di¤erent frequencies has attracted substantial interest in the recent econometric literature. In this paper we provide an overview of the most common techniques, including bridge equations, MIxed DAta Sampling (MIDAS) models, mixed frequency...
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Combination of forecasts from survey data is complicated by the frequent entry and exit in real time of individual forecasters which renders conventional least squares regression approaches to estimation of the combination weights infeasible. We explore the consequences of this for a variety of...
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quantitative macroeconomics. However, DSGE models was not considered as a forecasting tool until very recently. The objective of … this paper is twofold. First, we compare the forecasting ability of a canonical DSGE model for the Spanish economy with … series obtained from a DSGE model. The results indicate that the out-of-sample forecasting performance of the proposed method …
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The real interest rate gap or IRG -the gap between the short term real interest rate and its "natural" level-, is a theoretical concept that has attracted much attention in central banks in recent years. This paper aims at clarifying its practical relevance for monetary policy in real time. For...
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second survey-based factor, and the short term forecasting performance of the model in a pseudo-real time experiment. We find …. Moreover, the two factor model outperforms in terms of out of sample forecasting accuracy the traditional autoregressive …
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