The Role of Financial Variables in Predicting Economic Activity in the Euro Area /

The U.S. business cycle typically leads the European cycle by a few quarters and this can be used to forecast euro area GDP. We investigate whether financial variables carry additional information. We use vector autoregressions (VARs) which include the U.S. and the euro area GDPs as a minimal set of...

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1. Verfasser: Lombardi, Marco
Weitere Verfasser: Espinoza, Raphael, Fornari, Fabio
Format: Zeitschrift
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2009.
Schriftenreihe:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2009/241
Online Zugang:Full text available on IMF