The usefulness of the median CPI in Bayesian VARs used for macroeconomic forecasting and policy

In this paper, we investigate the forecasting performance of the median Consumer Price Index (CPI) in a variety of Bayesian Vector Autoregressions (BVARs) that are often used for monetary policy. Until now, the use of trimmed-mean price statistics in forecasting inflation has often been relegated to...

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Main Authors: Meyer, B. (Author), Zaman, S. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Verlag 2019
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