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El fuerte descenso de la actividad económica registrado en España durante 2009 y 2010 no tiene precedentes en la historia más reciente. Tras diez años de prosperidad con un crecimiento medio del 3.7%, el escenario macroeconómico actual somete a estrés los modelos de predicción...
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Bayesian inference requires an analyst to set priors. Setting the right prior is crucial for precise forecasts. This paper analyzes how optimal prior changes when an economy is hit by a recession. For this task, an autoregressive distributed lag (ADL) model is chosen. The results show that a...
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subjective choices in the setting of the prior. Moreover, it performs very well both in terms of out-of-sample forecasting …
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distribution. As an empirical illustration, we use euro area data and compare the forecasting performance of the New Area …
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provide more robust forecasts. We investigate this issue for forecasts from a range of short-term forecasting models. Our …
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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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the beginning of 2018. They also have performed well in forecasting the direction of inflation. In terms of the …
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In this paper we develop a small open economy model explaining the joint determination of output, inflation, interest rates, unemployment and the exchange rate in a multi-country framework. Our model - the Halle Economic Projection Model (HEPM) - is closely related to studies recently published...
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We propose a prior for VAR models that exploits the panel structure of macroeconomic time series while also providing shrinkage towards zero to address overfitting concerns. The prior is flexible as it detects shared dynamics of individual variables across endogenously determined groups of...
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forecasting solutions. In this context, the paper develops new forecasting methods for an old problem by employing 13 machine …
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