Forecasting with Shadow-Rate VARs
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چکیده
Interest rate data are an important element of macroeconomic forecasting. Projections future interest rates not only product themselves, but also typically matter for forecasting other and financial variables. A popular class models is linear vector autoregressions (VARs) that include shorter- longer-term rates. However, in a number economies, at least shorter-term have now been stuck years or near their effective lower bound (ELB), with drifting toward the constraint as well. In such environment, ignore ELB on nominal appear inept. To handle rates, we model observed censored observations latent shadow-rate process otherwise standard VAR setup. The shadow assumed to be equal when above ELB. Point density forecasts (short term long term) constructed from US since 2009 superior predictions ignores For indicators conditions measures economic activity inflation, accuracy our specification par
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Working paper
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2381-6287']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.26509/frbc-wp-202109