The debate on the forecasting ability in economics of non-linear models has a long history, and the Great Recession provides us with an opportunity for a re-assessment of the forecasting performance of several classes of non-linear models, widely used in applied macroeconomic research. In this...

In dieser Arbeit wird die Eignung des Instrumentariums der neuronalen Netze, im Konkreten der autoregressiven Neuronale-Netz-Modelle (ARNN), zur Modellierung und Prognose von makroökonomischen Zeitreihen untersucht und mit jenen der autoregressiven (AR) und autoregressiven...

The Great Recession and the subsequent period of subdued GDP growth in most advanced economies have highlighted the need for macroeconomic forecasters to account for sudden and deep recessions, periods of higher macroeconomic volatility, and fluctuations in trend GDP growth. In this paper, we...