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premia contains valuable information for forecasting future spot exchange rates and that exchange rate dynamics display non …-linearities. This Paper proposes a term-structure forecasting model of exchange rates based on a regime-switching vector equilibrium …
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Models based on economic theory have serious problems at forecasting exchange rates better than simple univariate … forecasting. In addition, we adopt a driftless random walk prior, so that cross-dynamics matter for forecasting only if there is …
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We set out a reference chronology for annual UK inflation, identifying nine complete cycles between 1958 and 1990. Inflation over this period is asymmetric, falling more quickly than it rises. Leading indicators are also proposed, with composite shorter and longer leading indicators constructed....
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index and to evaluate the role of financial variables in forecasting. We considered two models which allow forecasting based … univariate methods for forecasting inflation at one, three, six, and twelve months and industrial production at one and three … months. We find that financial variables do help forecasting inflation, but do not help forecasting industrial production. …
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This Paper provides a novel approach to forecasting time series subject to discrete structural breaks. We propose a …
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spread helps in forecasting output and the structural evidence on the difficulties of estimating the effect of monetary … forecasting equation improves the forecasting performance of the spread for future output but the coefficients on the short rate … into an expectations-related component and a term premium allows a better understanding of the forecasting model. In fact …
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This paper develops a political economy model of multiple unemployment equilibria to provide a theory of an endogenous natural rate of unemployment. This model is applied to the UK and the US interwar period which is remembered as the decade of mass unemployment. The theory here sees the natural...
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This paper compares the predictive ability of the factor models of Stock and Watson (2002) and Forni, Hallin, Lippi, and Reichlin (2005) using a large panel of US macroeconomic variables. We propose a nesting procedure of comparison that clarifies and partially overturns the results of similar...
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and easy-to-use forecasting methods such as the no-change forecast. This does not mean that there is no useful information …
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This paper addresses the issue of forecasting the term structure. We provide a unified state-space modelling framework … forecasting performance of two crucial modelling choices, i.e. the imposition of no-arbitrage restrictions and the size of the … information set used to extract factors. Using US yield curve data, we find that: a. macro factors are very useful in forecasting …
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