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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Κύριος συγγραφέας: Lombardi, Marco
Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Espinoza, Raphael, Fornari, Fabio
Μορφή: Επιστημονικό περιοδικό
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2009.
Σειρά:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2009/241
Διαθέσιμο Online:Full text available on IMF