Asymmetry, Complementarities, and State Dependence in Federal Reserve Forecasts

Julieta Caunedo, Riccardo DiCecio, Ivana Komunjer and Michael Owyang

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2020, vol. 52, issue 1, 205-228

Abstract: Forecasts are a central component of policymaking; the Federal Reserve's forecasts are published in a document called the Greenbook. Previous studies of the Greenbook's inflation forecasts have found them to be rationalizable but asymmetric if considering particular subperiods, for example, before and after the Volcker appointment. In these papers, forecasts are analyzed in isolation, assuming policymakers value them independently. We analyze the Greenbook forecasts in a framework in which the forecast errors for different variables are allowed to interact. We find that allowing the losses to interact makes the unemployment forecasts virtually symmetric, the output forecasts symmetric prior to the Volcker appointment, and the inflation forecasts symmetric after the onset of the Great Moderation.

Date: 2020
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