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Short-term forecasts of euro area real GDP growth: an assessment of real-time performance based on vintage data
Diron, Marie - 2006
Economic policy makers, international organisations and private-sector forecasters commonly use short-term forecasts of real GDP growth based on monthly indicators, such as industrial production, retail sales and confidence surveys. An assessment of the reliability of such tools and of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604668
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Short-Term Forecasts of Euro Area Real GDP Growth : An Assessment of Real-Time Performance Based on Vintage Data
Diron, Marie - 2021
Economic policy makers, international organisations and private-sector forecasters commonly use short-term forecasts of real GDP growth based on monthly indicators, such as industrial production, retail sales and confidence surveys. An assessment of the reliability of such tools and of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317625
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How repayments manipulate our perceptions about loan dynamics after a boom
Adalid, Ramón; Falagiarda, Matteo - 2018
We propose a method to decompose net lending flows into loan origination and repayments. We show that a boom in loan origination is transmitted to repayments with a very long lag, depressing the growth rate of the stock for many periods. In the euro area, repayments of the mortgage loans granted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012142055
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How Repayments Manipulate Our Perceptions about Loan Dynamics after a Boom
Adalid, Ramón; Falagiarda, Matteo - 2021
We propose a method to decompose net lending flows into loan origination and repayments. We show that a boom in loan origination is transmitted to repayments with a very long lag, depressing the growth rate of the stock for many periods. In the euro area, repayments of the mortgage loans granted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315372
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Putting the New Keynesian DSGE model to the real-time forecasting test
Kolasa, Marcin; Rubaszek, Michał; Skrzypczyński, Paweł - 2009
. Nevertheless, their forecasting properties are still barely explored. We fill this gap by comparing the quality of real … priors from a DSGE model. We show that the analyzed DSGE model is relatively successful in forecasting the US economy in the … accurate short-term forecasts for interest rates. Conditional on experts' now casts, however, the forecasting power of the DSGE …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605156
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Euro area labour markets: different reaction to shocks?
Brůha, Jan; Pierluigi, Beatrice; Serafini, Roberta - 2011
A small labour market model for the six largest euro area countries (Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium) is estimated in a state -space framework. The model entails, in the long run, four driving forces: a trend labour force component, a trend labour productivity component,...
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Understanding and forecasting aggregate and disaggregate price dynamics
Bermingham, Colin; D’Agostino, Antonello - 2011
The issue of forecast aggregation is to determine whether it is better to forecast a series directly or instead construct forecasts of its components and then sum these component forecasts. Notwithstanding some underlying theoretical results, it is generally accepted that forecast aggregation is...
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Determinants of credit-less recoveries
Bijsterbosch, Martin; Dahlhaus, Tatjana - 2011
This paper aims to shed light on the characteristics and particularly the determinants of credit-less recoveries. After building a dataset and documenting some stylised facts of credit-less recoveries in emerging market economies, this paper uses panel probit models to analyse key determinants...
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Macro-networks: an application to the euro area financial accounts
Castrén, Olli; Rancan, Michela - 2013
We use financial accounts data at sector level to construct financial networks for individual euro area countries. We then connect the country-level networks to one large “Macro Network”, using information on cross-border linkages between the national banking sectors. We then evaluate the...
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Real estate markets and macroprudential policy in Europe
Hartmann, Philipp - 2015
Boom-bust cycles in real estate markets have been major factors in systemic financial crises and therefore need to be at the forefront of macroprudential policy. The geographically differentiated nature of real estate market fluctuations implies that these policies need to be granular across...
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