China's monetary policy is unconventional and constantly evolving as a result of its rapid economic development. This paper proposes to use fore-cast combinations to predict the People's Bank of China's monetary policy stance with a large set of 73 macroeconomic and financial predictors covering...

This paper proposes a new test for structural stability in panels by extending the testing procedure proposed in the seminal work of Andrews (2003) originally developed for time series. The test is robust to non-normal, heteroskedastic and serially correlated errors, and, importantly, allows for...