chapter investigates the use of economic forecasting in policy making by discussing practical examples, providing new … institutional details of the forecasting process at fiscal authorities and central banks. We provide empirical evidence that central … producing forecasts. We review forecasting models and provide practical applications. In particular, we illustrate how to use …

made in the first oil price shock of the 1970s. In response to the challenges encountered in forecasting in recent years … and the lessons learnt, the OECD and other international organisations have sought to improve their forecasting techniques …

contribute to anchoring of expectations about nominal variables; its effects on disagreement about real variables are moderate. …

policy analysis, spillover analysis, and forecasting applications of the estimated model are demonstrated, based on a …

forecasting applications of the estimated model are demonstrated, based on a Bayesian framework for conditioning on judgment …

story-telling and policy analysis were in the forefront of applications since its inception, the forecasting perspective of … models are inferior in ex-ante forecasting a crisis. Surprisingly however, it turned out that not all but those models which … only detect the turning point of the Austrian business cycle early in 2008 but they also succeeded in forecasting the …

forecasting model necessary in the MNB. The model represents a small open economy. It is based on the DSGE philosophy but it … deviates from it at several points. The new features of the model, compared to previous forecasting models of the MNB, are that … expectation hypothesis at several points and treats expectations pragmatically and flexibly. The model parameters are calibrated …