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This paper provides new evidence on the usefulness of McCallum's proposed rule for monetary policy. The rule targets nominal GDP using the monetary base as the instrument. We analyze the rule using three very different economic models to see if the rule works well in different environments. Our...
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Residential house price indexes (HPI) are used for a large variety of macroeconomic and microeconomic research and policy purposes, as well as for automated valuation models. As is well known, these indexes are subject to substantial revisions in the months following the initial release, both...
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This paper reexamines the forecasting ability of Phillips curves from both an unconditional and conditional perspective by applying the method developed by Giacomini and White (2006). We find that forecasts from our Phillips curve models tend to be unconditionally inferior to those from our...
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This paper discusses how forecasts may be affected by the use of real-time data rather than latest-available data. The key issue is this: In the literature on developing forecasting models, new models are put together based on the results they yield using the data set available to the model...
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JOHNSTON R., MCKINNEY M. and STARK T. (1996) Regional price level variations and real household incomes in the United Kingdom, 1979/80-1993, Reg. Studies 30, 567-578. For the years 1979/80 to 1993 relative regional price indices (RRPIs) are construced under a variety of definitions. The base...
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