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the estimating procedure. Findings from evidence-based forecasting are also addressed to evaluate the impact of an ongoing …
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We estimate a model in which fiscal and monetary policy obey the targeting rules of distinct policy authorities, with potentially different objective functions. We find: (1) Time‐consistent policy fits U.S. time series at least as well as instrument‐rules‐based behavior; (2) American...
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implications for forecasting inflation rates and understanding the mechanisms of monetary policy transmission. Traditional filters …
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Since the advent of Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods in the early 1990s, Bayesian methods have been proposed for a large and growing number of applications. One of the main advantages of Bayesian inference is the ability to deal with many different sources of uncertainty, including data,...
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, forecasting, assessment of policy effectiveness in macro, finance, marketing and monetary economics. …
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The number of short-time workers from January to April 2020 is used to now- and forecast quarterly GDP growth. We purge the monthly log level series from the systematic component to extract unexpected changes or shocks to log short-time workers. These monthly shocks are included in a univariate...
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Increasing retirement ages in an automatic or scheduled way with increasing life expectancy at retirement is a popular pension policy response to continuous longevity improvements. The question addressed here is: to what extent is simply adopting this approach likely to fulfill the overall goals...
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I use Bayesian VARs with stochastic volatility to forecast global temperatures and sea level and ice cover in the Northerin emisphere until 2010, by exploiting (i) their long-run equilibrium relationship with climate change drivers (CCDs) and (ii) the relationship between world GDP and...
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Purpose - The paper compares multi-period forecasting performances by direct and iterated method using Bayesian vector … are conducted to compare forecasting performances. An empirical study using US macroeconomic data are shown as an … with longer lag model and with longer forecast horizons. Implementing SSVS prior generally improves forecasting performance …
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forecasting accuracy. …
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