Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/208261 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 2227
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
The Eurosystem staff forecasts are conditional on the financial markets, the global economy and fiscal policy outlook, and include expert judgement. We develop a multi-country BVAR for the four largest countries of the euro area and we show that it provides accurate conditional forecasts of policy relevant variables such as, for example, consumer prices and GDP. The forecasting accuracy and the ability to mimic the path of the Eurosystem projections suggest that the model is a valid benchmark to assess the consistency of the projections with the conditional assumptions. As such, the BVAR can be used to identify possible sources of judgement, based on the gaps between the Eurosystem projections and the historical regularities captured by the model.
Subjects: 
Multi-country model
cross-checking
conditional forecast
euro area
JEL: 
C52
C53
E37
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-899-3489-3
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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