of country-specific determinants. This paper shows empirically the superiority of direct forecasting methods, in which …

Forecasting the world economy is a difficult task given the complex interrelationships within and across countries …, first, at ranking various forecasting methods in terms of forecast accuracy and, second, at checking whether methods … forecasting directly aggregate variables (direct approaches) outperform methods based on the aggregation of country …

of country-specific determinants. This paper shows empirically the superiority of direct forecasting methods, in which …

Forecasting the world economy is a difficult task given the complex interrelationships within and across countries …, first, at ranking various forecasting methods in terms of forecast accuracy and, second, at checking whether methods … forecasting di- rectly aggregate variables (direct approaches)out-perform methods based on the aggregation of country- specific …

We propose a new method for medium-term forecasting using exogenous information. We first show how a shifting … for estimating the model parameters. In forecasting inflation, the central bank inflation target, if it exists, is a … natural example of such exogenous information. We illustrate the application of our method by an out-of-sample forecasting …

series at annual frequency. This makes the analysis useful in the typical forecasting environment of large institutions …

This paper explores the role of model and vintage combination in forecasting, with a novel approach that exploits the …

-time estimates to check the stability of the estimates to GDP revisions. We finally run a forecasting experiment to evaluate the … estimates in real time. Our measures help forecasting inflation over most of our evaluation sample (2001-2010) but fail …