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each car owned by the household -- own and cross-price effects of increases in fuel costs per kilometre. The empirical … results show that failure to capture substitution between cars within the household can result in substantial misspecification … the position of the most fuel efficient car in the household, suggesting that households" fuel efficiency choices are …
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Prospective economic developments depend on the behavior of consumer spending. A key question is whether private expenditures recover once social distancing restrictions are lifted or whether the COVID-19 crisis has a sustained impact on consumer confidence, preferences, and, hence, spending....
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conditional volatilities and correlations, the distribution for the innovations and the method of forecast construction. We find … smaller. The differences from the model, distribution and forecast choices are also smaller compared to temporal aggregation. …
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In this paper we study what professional forecasters actually explain. We use spectral analysis and state space modeling to decompose economic time series into a trend, a business-cycle, and an irregular component. To examine which components are captured by professional forecasters we regress...
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compared on forecast accuracy. We find that disagreement has predictive power indeed and that this variable can be used to …
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area, the United States and Japan. In particular, incorporating survey forecast information helps to reduce the uncertainty …
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We present an accurate and efficient method for Bayesian forecasting of two financial risk measures, Value-at-Risk and Expected Shortfall, for a given volatility model. We obtain precise forecasts of the tail of the distribution of returns not only for the 10-days-ahead horizon required by the...
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model in an empirical study on the forecasting of U.S. headline inflation. In particular, we forecast monthly inflation …
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