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This paper assesses the forecasting performance of various variable reduction and variable selection methods. A small and a large set of wisely chosen variables are used in forecasting the industrial production growth for four Euro Area economies. The results indicate that the Automatic Leading...
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We identify a set of "rules of thumb" that characterise economic, financial and structural conditions preceding the onset of banking and currency crises in 36 advanced economies over 1970-2010. We use the Classification and Regression Tree methodology (CART) and its Random Forest (RF) extension,...
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algorithm for the estimation of the restricted models. We analyze a system of monthly US data on money and income. The test …
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We introduce a methodology to characterise financial cycles combining a novel multivariate spectral approach to identifying common cycle frequencies across a set of indicators, and a time varying aggregation emphasising systemic developments. The methodology is applied to 13 European Union...
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Combining euro-area credit register and carbon emission data, we provide evidence of a climate risk-taking channel in … committed to decarbonization. Consistently with the risk-taking channel of monetary policy, tighter policy induces banks to … increase both credit risk premia and carbon emission premia, and reduce lending to high emission firms more than to low …
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As part of the supervisory work on the transparency of banks' risk profiles, the European Central Bank (ECB) is … (SIs) and a selected number of less significant institutions (LSIs). The assessment of C&E risk management and disclosures … and strategy, governance, risk management, and metrics and targets, as per the ECB Guide expectation 13. The review was …
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This report discloses climate-related information about the ECB's euro-denominated non-monetary policy portfolios. The report includes investments into the ECB's staff pension fund and its own funds portfolio. The ECB's efforts to reduce carbon emissions in line with the interim targets set for...
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In this paper we investigate the effects of uncertainty shocks on economic activity in the euro area by using a Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) model with heterogenous agents and a stylized banking sector. We show that frictions in credit supply amplify the effects of uncertainty...
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Policy impact studies often suffer from endogeneity problems. Consider the case of the ECB Securities Markets Programme: if Eurosystem interventions were triggered by sudden and strong price deteriorations, looking at daily price changes may bias downwards the correlation between yields and the...
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the characteristics of macroeconomic density forecasts (such as their location, spread, skewness and tail risk) and …
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