Linear models reach their limitations in applications with nonlinearities in the data. In this paper we provide new empirical evidence on the relative Euro inflation forecasting performance of linear and nonlinear models. The well established and widely used univariate ARIMA and multivariate VAR...

This study provides strong empirical support for modeling the demand for monetary assets within a consumer demand framework. We estimate a linearised locally flexible almost ideal demand system, containing five monetary assets, over the period 1991Q4 to 1998Q4. Estimating the system in...

Using non-parametric weak separability tests that are extended to allow for measurement errors in the data, a broad group of UK monetary assets is found to be weakly separable from consumer goods and leisure over the larger part of the nineties. Financial innovations have made assets with...