Predicting European Union Recessions in the Euro Era: The Yield Curve as a Forecasting Tool of Economic Activity

Dionysios Chionis, Periklis Gogas and Ioannis Pragidis ()

International Advances in Economic Research, 2010, vol. 16, issue 1, 10 pages

Abstract: Several studies have established the predictive power of the yield curve for the U.S. and various European countries. In this paper we use data from the European Union (EU15), from 1994:Q1 to 2008:Q3. We use the European Central Bank’s euro area yield spreads to predict European real GDP deviations from the long-run trend. We also augment the models tested with non monetary policy variables: the unemployment and a composite European stock price index. The methodology employed is a probit model of the inverse cumulative distribution function of the standard distribution using several formal forecasting and goodness of fit evaluation tests. The results show that the yield curve augmented with the composite stock index has significant forecasting power in terms of the EU15 real output. Copyright International Atlantic Economic Society 2010

Keywords: Forecasting; Yield spread; Recession; Probit; Term structure; Monetary policy; Real growth; E43; E44; E52; C53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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