A real time evaluation of Bank of England forecasts of inflation and growth
Jan Groen,
George Kapetanios and
Simon Price
International Journal of Forecasting, 2009, vol. 25, issue 1, 74-80
Abstract:
We compare the Bank of England's Inflation Report quarterly forecasts for growth and inflation to real-time benchmark forecasts. The results reveal the well-known difficulty of forecasting in a stable macroeconomic environment, and the Inflation Report forecasts of GDP growth are generally inferior to forecasts from linear and non-linear univariate models. However, for the inflation forecast the Inflation Report is clearly dominant.
Keywords: Real-time; data; Forecast; performance; Inflation; Growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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