Unité mixte de recherche 7235

Forecasting U.S. Recessions and Economic Activity

Rachidi Kotchoni, Dalibor Stevanovic

[en]This paper proposes a framework to produce real time multi-horizon forecasts of business cycle turning points, average forecasts of economic activity as well as conditional forecasts that depend on whether the horizon of interest belongs to a recession episode or not. Our forecasting models take the form of an autoregression of order one that is augmented with either a probability of recession or an inverse Mills ratio. Our empirical results suggest that a static Probit model that uses only the Term Spread as regressor provides comparable fit to the data as more sophisticated non-static Probit models. We also find that the dynamic patterns of the Term Structure of recession probabilities are quite informative about business cycle turning points. Our most parsimonious augmented autoregressive model delivers better out-of-sample forecasts of GDP growth than the benchmark models considered. We construct several Term Structures of recession probabilities since the last official NBER turning point. The results suggest that there has been no harbinger of a recession for the US economy since 2010Q4 and that there is none to fear at least until 2018Q1. GDP growth is expected to rise steadily between 2016Q3 and 2018Q1 in the range [2.5%,3.5%].[/en]

AGENDA

mardi 26 septembre 2023

Recherche et Economie et Socioéconomie Politique, des Institutions et des Régulations (RESPIR)

André Orléan (EHESS)

ATTENTION : exceptionnellement, le séminaire aura lieu en G 301-302 et non en G614b

Valeur et monnaie: une approche institutionnaliste

jeudi 28 septembre 2023

Lunch

Philippe POINSOT

Quels sont les gagnants et les perdants des réformes de la fiscalité locale en France ? Une évaluation de la suppression de la CVAE

jeudi 28 septembre 2023

Développement Durable Environnement et Energie (DDEE)

Romain Espinosa (CIRED)

Salle 614B de 11h – 12h

The Animal Welfare Levy

jeudi 5 octobre 2023

Groupe de travail Economie Comportementale

Aurélie Bonein (Université de Rennes 1, CREM)

TBA

jeudi 5 octobre 2023

Doctorants

Himani Pasricha

The impact of climate variability on internal migration in Thailand.

dimanche 8 octobre 2023

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Fayçal Hamdi

dimanche 8 octobre 2023

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Tobias Kretschmmer

lundi 9 octobre 2023

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