A Small Quarterly Projection Model of the US Economy

By Igor Ermolaev, Michel Juillard, Ioan Carabenciov, Charles Freedman, Douglas Laxton, Ondrej Kamenik, Dmitry Korshunov

December 1, 2008

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Igor Ermolaev, Michel Juillard, Ioan Carabenciov, Charles Freedman, Douglas Laxton, Ondrej Kamenik, and Dmitry Korshunov. A Small Quarterly Projection Model of the US Economy, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2008) accessed November 21, 2024

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Summary

This is the first of a series of papers that are being written as part of a project to estimate a small quarterly Global Projection Model (GPM). The GPM project is designed to improve the toolkit for studying both own-country and cross-country linkages. In this paper, we estimate a small quarterly projection model of the U.S. economy. The model is estimated with Bayesian techniques, which provide a very efficient way of imposing restrictions to produce both plausible dynamics and sensible forecasting properties. After developing a benchmark model without financial-real linkages, we introduce such linkages into the model and compare the results with and without linkages.

Subject: Central bank policy rate, Inflation, Output gap, Potential output, Real interest rates

Keywords: Interest rate, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

54
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Working Paper No. 2008/278
Stock No:

WPIEA2008278
ISBN:

9781451871364
ISSN:

1018-5941

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