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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主要作者: Lombardi, Marco
其他作者: Espinoza, Raphael, Fornari, Fabio
格式: 雜誌
語言:English
出版: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2009.
叢編:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2009/241
在線閱讀:Full text available on IMF