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Sometimes it helps: the evolving predictive power of spreads on GDP dynamics

We investigate the predictive content of credit and government interest spreads with respect to the Italian GDP growth. Our analysis with Dynamic Model Averaging identifies when interest spreads were more useful predictors of economic activity: these periods are not limited to the Great Recession. For credit spreads we gather information from both bank loans and corporate bonds and we compare their predictive role over time and over different forecasting horizons.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: ECB Working Paper ; No. 1447

Classification
Wirtschaft
Model Evaluation, Validation, and Selection
Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles: Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
Subject
Bayesian econometrics
GDP forecasting
model averaging

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Nicoletti, Giulio
Passaro, Raffaele
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
European Central Bank (ECB)
(where)
Frankfurt a. M.
(when)
2012

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  • Arbeitspapier

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  • Nicoletti, Giulio
  • Passaro, Raffaele
  • European Central Bank (ECB)

Time of origin

  • 2012

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