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We construct risks around consensus forecasts of real GDP growth, unemployment, and inflation. We find that risks are … unemployment risk, and increased uncertainty around the inflation forecast. Growth vulnerability arises as the conditional mean and … unemployment are positively correlated, with tighter financial conditions corresponding to higher forecasted unemployment and …
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This paper develops a framework that allows us to combine the tools provided by structural models for economic interpretation and policy analysis with those of reduced-form models designed for nowcasting. We show how to map a quarterly dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model into a...
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We compare sparse and dense representations of predictive models in macroeconomics, microeconomics, and finance. To deal with a large number of possible predictors, we specify a prior that allows for both variable selection and shrinkage. The posterior distribution does not typically concentrate...
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We show that realized volatility, especially the realized volatility of financial sector stock returns, has strong predictive content for the future distribution of market returns. This is a robust feature of the last century of U.S. data and, most importantly, can be exploited in real time....
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