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Do monetary indicators lead euro area inflation?

Hofmann, Boris - 2008

This paper assesses the performance of monetary indicators as well as of a large range of economic and financial indicators in predicting euro area HICP inflation out-of-sample over the period first quarter 1999 till third quarter 2006 considering standard bivariate forecasting models, factor...

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Are sectoral stock prices useful for predicting euro area GDP?

Andersson, Magnus; D’Agostino, Antonello - 2008

This paper evaluates how well sectoral stock prices forecast future economic activity compared to traditional … prices in general provide more accurate forecasts than traditional asset price measures across all forecast horizons. …

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Imperfect predictability and mutual fund dynamics. How managers use predictors in changing systematic risk.

Amisano, Gianni; Savona, Roberto - 2008

Suppose a fund manager uses predictors in changing port-folio allocations over time. How does predictability translate into portfolio decisions? To answer this question we derive a new model within the Bayesian framework, where managers are assumed to modulate the systematic risk in part by...

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Forecasting world trade: direct versus “bottom-up” approaches

Burgert, Matthias; Dées, Stéphane - 2008

In a globalised world economy, global factors have become increasingly important to explain trade flows at the expense of country-specific determinants. This paper shows empirically the superiority of direct forecasting methods, in which world trade is directly forecasted at the aggregate...

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The role of country-specific trade and survey data in forecasting euro area manufacturing production: perspective from large panel factor models

Darracq Pariès, Matthieu; Maurin, Laurent - 2008

(2002a, 2002b) and Forni et al. (2005). Third, a rolling out of sample forecast comparison exercise is carried out on nine … that incorporating survey and external trade information improves the forecast of manufacturing production. They also …

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Flow of conjunctural information and forecast of euro area economic activity

Drechsel, Katja; Maurin, Laurent - 2008

Euro area GDP and components are nowcast and forecast one quarter ahead. Based on a dataset of 163 series comprising … Giannone, Reichlin and Small (2006) and Banbura and Rünstler (2007). An out-of-sample forecast comparison exercise is also … carried out for each component and GDP directly. The forecast performance is found to vary widely across components. Two …

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Should quarterly government finance statistics be used for fiscal surveillane in Europe?

Pedregal, Diego J.; Pérez, Javier J. - 2008

We use a newly available dataset of euro area quarterly national accounts fiscal data and construct multi-variate, state-space mixed-frequencies models for the government deficit, revenue and expenditure in order to assess its information content and its potential use for fiscal forecasting and...

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Short-term forecasts of euro area GDP growth

Angelini, Elena; Camba-Méndez, Gonzalo; Giannone, Domenico - 2008

Global financial integration unlocks a huge potential for international risk sharing. We examine the degree to which international equity holdings act as a risk sharing device in industrial and emerging economies. We split equity returns into investment income (dividend distribution) and capital...

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Is forecasting with large models informative? Assessing the role of judgement in macroeconomic forecasts

Mestre, Ricardo; McAdam, Peter - 2008

-for breaks in forecast accuracy and off-model judgment. Conclusions reached are that simple mechanical residual adjustments have …

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Large Bayesian VARs

Bańbura, Marta; Giannone, Domenico; Reichlin, Lucrezia - 2008

This paper shows that Vector Autoregression with Bayesian shrinkage is an appropriate tool for large dynamic models. We build on the results by De Mol, Giannone, and Reichlin (2008) and show that, when the degree of shrinkage is set in relation to the cross-sectional dimension, the forecasting...

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