Sometimes it Helps: The Evolving Predictive Power of Spreads on GDP Dynamics
36 Pages Posted: 27 Jul 2012
Date Written: June 25, 2012
Abstract
We investigate the predictive content of credit and government interest spreads with respect to the Italian GDP growth. Our analysis with Dynamic Model Averaging identifies when interest spreads were more useful predictors of economic activity: these periods are not limited to the Great Recession. For credit spreads we gather information from both bank loans and corporate bonds and we compare their predictive role over time and over different forecasting horizons.
Keywords: GDP forecasting, Bayesian econometrics, model averaging
JEL Classification: C52, E37
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Nicoletti, Giulio and Passaro, Raffaele, Sometimes it Helps: The Evolving Predictive Power of Spreads on GDP Dynamics (June 25, 2012). ECB Working Paper No. 1447, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2091135 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2091135
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