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December 1, 2015

The FRBNY DSGE Model Forecast—November 2015

This post presents an update of the economic forecasts implied by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s (FRBNY) dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model, which we first introduced in a series of blog posts in September 2014.

September 21, 2015

Are BHCs Mimicking the Fed’s Stress Test Results?

Angela Deng, Beverly Hirtle, and Anna Kovner In March, the Federal Reserve and thirty-one large bank holding companies (BHCs) disclosed their annual Dodd-Frank Act stress test (DFAST) results. This is the third year in which both the BHCs and the Fed have published their projections. In a previous post, we looked at whether the Fed’s […]

June 8, 2015

The Myth of First‑Quarter Residual Seasonality

The current policy debate is influenced by the possibility that the first-quarter GDP data were affected by “residual seasonality.”

May 18, 2015

The FRBNY DSGE Model Forecast–April 2015

Marco Del Negro, Marc Giannoni, Matthew Cocci, Sara Shahanaghi, and Micah Smith First in a two-part series There are various types of economic forecasts, such as judgmental forecasts or model-based forecasts. In this post, we provide an update of the economic forecasts implied by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s (FRBNY) dynamic stochastic general […]

May 15, 2015

Just Released: The New York Fed Staff Forecast, May 2015

Today, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY) is hosting the spring meeting of its Economic Advisory Panel (EAP). As has become custom at this meeting, FRBNY staff are presenting their forecast for U.S. growth, inflation, and unemployment through the end of 2016. Following the presentation, members of the EAP, which consists of leading economists in academia and the private sector, are asked to discuss the staff forecast. Such feedback helps the staff evaluate the assumptions and reasoning underlying the forecast and the key risks to it. Subjecting the staff forecast to periodic evaluation is also important because it informs the staff’s discussions with New York Fed President William Dudley about economic conditions. In that same spirit, we are sharing a short summary of the staff forecast in this post. For more detail, please see the material from the EAP meeting on our website.

March 25, 2015

Choosing the Right Policy in Real Time (Why That’s Not Easy)

Marco Del Negro, Raiden B. Hasegawa, and Frank Schorfheide Second in a two-part series As an economist, you make policy recommendations at any point in time that depend on what model of the economy you have in mind and on your assessment of the state of the economy. One can see these points play out […]

March 23, 2015

Combining Models for Forecasting and Policy Analysis

Model uncertainty is pervasive. Economists, bloggers, policymakers all have different views of how the world works and what economic policies would make it better.

January 7, 2015

What Does Disagreement Tell Us about Uncertainty?

Uncertainty is of considerable interest for understanding the behavior of individuals as well as the movements in key macroeconomic and financial variables.

December 5, 2014

Survey Measures of Expectations for the Policy Rate

Market prices provide timely information on policy expectations.

November 5, 2014

Forecasting Inflation with Fundamentals . . . It’s Hard!

Jan Groen Controlling inflation is at the core of monetary policymaking, and central bankers would like to have access to reliable inflation forecasts to assess their progress in achieving this goal. Producing accurate inflation forecasts, however, turns out not to be a trivial exercise. This posts reviews the key challenges in inflation forecasting and discusses […]

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