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We use a real-time boosting approach to study the time-varying out-of-sample informational content of various predictor variables (inflation rate, exchange-rate fluctuations, stock market returns and interest rates) for forecasting gold-price fluctuations. While the predictor variables have...
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Economic theory predicts that, in a small open economy, the dynamics of the real price of gold should be linked to real interest rates and the rate of change of the real exchange rate. Using data for Australia, we use a real-time forecasting approach to analyze whether real interest rates and...
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Drawing on recent empirical research, we study whether the international business cycle, as measured in terms of the output gaps of the G7 countries, has out-of-sample predictive power for gold-price fluctuations. To this end, we use a real-time forecasting approach that accounts for model...
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Confronted with a significant devaluation pressure on the euro, the European Central Bank (ECB) tried in the fall of 2000 to influence the dynamics of the euro through foreign exchange market interventions. In this paper, we analyze the effectiveness of the intervention policy of the ECB. To...
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This paper uses a dynamic general equilibrium two-country optimizing model to analyse the consequences of international capital mobility for macroeconomic volatility. To this end, the dynamic macroeconomic effects of a monetary policy, a fiscal policy, and a labor supply shock are analysed....
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