limited attention from the academic literature analysing fiscal forecasting in Europe. Some recent literature suggests the … forecasting and monitoring annual outcomes, while making use of infra-annual fiscal information, available within the current year …

. Indicators arecompared by means of an in-sample and an out-of-sample forecasting experiment.Predictive accuracy is compared by …

their forecasting properties for the policy rates of the European Central Bank. In this respect the basic rules, results …

their forecasting properties for the policy rates of the European Central Bank. In this respect the basic rules, results …

relative to other predictors generally improving in the post-2012 period. An out-of-sample forecasting exercise indicates that …, when monetary and credit aggregates are loaded directly in the forecasting equation, the additional gains over the … and credit variables in forecasting inflation, even if their information content is diluted in a much broader pool of …

- and hard-threshold algorithms improves the forecasting performance, especially during periods of economic crisis. While a … effect on forecasting performance, all the more, if the set of indicators becomes unbalanced. …

an out-of-sample forecasting exercise, the paper shows that the proposed approach performs well as compared to other well …