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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2018
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
ifo Working Paper No. 265
Verlag: 
ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, Munich
Zusammenfassung: 
Can information on macroeconomic uncertainty improve the forecast accuracy for key macroeconomic time series for the US? Since previous studies have demonstrated that the link between the real economy and uncertainty is subject to nonlinearities, I assess the predictive power of macroeconomic uncertainty in both linear and nonlinear Bayesian VARs. For the latter I use a threshold VAR that allows for regimedependent dynamics conditional on the level of the uncertainty measure. I find that the predictive power of macroeconomic uncertainty in the linear VAR is negligible. In contrast, using information on macroeconomic uncertainty in a threshold VAR can significantly improve the accuracy of short-term point and density forecasts, especially in the presence of high uncertainty.
Schlagwörter: 
Forecasting
BVAR
nonlinearity
threshold VAR
uncertainty
JEL: 
C11
C53
C55
E32
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Working Paper

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