Browsing by Author "D'Agostino, Antonello"

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Are some forecasters really better than others?

D'Agostino, Antonello ; McQuinn, Kieran ; Whelan, Karl (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-04)

In any dataset with individual forecasts of economic variables, some forecasters will perform better than others. However, it is possible that these ex post differences reflect sampling variation and thus overstate the ...
Federal Reserve information during the great moderation

Whelan, Karl ; D'Agostino, Antonello (MIT Press, 2008-04)

Using data from the period 1970-1991, Romer and Romer (2000) showed that Federal Reserve forecasts of inflation and output were superior to those provided by commercial forecasters. In this paper, we show that this superior ...
Federal Reserve Information during the great moderation

D'Agostino, Antonello ; Whelan, Karl (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2007-12)

Using data from the period 1970-1991, Romer and Romer (2000) showed that Federal Reserve forecasts of inflation and output were superior to those provided by commercial forecasters. In this paper, we show that this superior ...
Federal Reserve information during the great moderation

Whelan, Karl ; D'Agostino, Antonello (Central Bank of Ireland, 2007-11)

Using data from the period 1970-1991, Romer and Romer (2000) showed that Federal Reserve forecasts of inflation and output were superior to those provided by commercial forecasters. In this paper, we show that this superior ...