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If oil exporters stabilize the purchasing power of their export revenues in terms of imports, exchange rate developments (and particularly, developments in the US dollar/euro exchange rate) may contain information about oil price changes. This hypothesis depends on three conditions: (a) OPEC has...
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This paper offers a narrative description of Western European monetary policies during the 1980s, seen from a French and European perspective and based on the archives of the General Council of the Bank of France and of the Committee of Governors (CoG) of the central banks of the member states...
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judgmental adjustment of model-based forecasts, whether forecast updates are progressive, on a constrained mixture vector … underwriters and issuing firms in the Japanese corporate bond market, stochastic life table forecasting: a time-simultaneous fan …
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continuous time theory. In explanatory financial variability modelling this raises several methodological and practical issues … properties of operational and practical procedures for the forecast evaluation of explanatory discrete time models of financial …
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of country-specific determinants. This paper shows empirically the superiority of direct forecasting methods, in which …
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The paper assesses the extent to which the Group of Seven (G7) has been successful in its management of major currencies since the 1970s. Using an event-study approach, the paper finds evidence that the G7 has been overall effective in moving the US dollar, yen and euro in the intended direction...
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directional forecasts can provide a useful framework to assess the economic forecast value when loss functions (or success … directional forecast value is a readily available alternative to the commonly used squared error loss criterion. …
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The theory suggests that investment activities and monetary policy influence the development of the global business … the beginning of the forecasting horizon. However, when the forecasting horizon increases the VARs outperform the ARs …. Comparing the forecasting performance of the ECMs, it was found that the forecasting ability of the ECMs in first differences …
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Common approaches to test for the economic value of directional forecasts are based on the classical Chi-square test for independence, Fisher’s exact test or the Pesaran and Timmerman (1992) test for market timing. These tests are asymptotically valid for serially independent observations....
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The paper analyses the heterogeneity in the link between macroeconomic fundamentals and exchange rates. For a set of important US-specific economic shocks, it shows that such shocks have exerted a remarkably heterogeneous effect on global exchange rate configurations over the past 25 years....
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