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The information content of monetary statistics for the Great Recession: Evidence from Germany

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  • Chen, Wenjuan
  • Nautz, Dieter

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This paper introduces a Divisia monetary aggregate for Germany and explores its information content for the Great Recession. Divisia money and the corresponding simple sum aggregate are highly correlated in normal times but begin to diverge before the crisis. Out of sample forecast analysis and a conditional forecast exercise show that the predictive content of this divergence for the Great Recession is not only statistically significant, but also economically important.

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  • Chen, Wenjuan & Nautz, Dieter, 2015. "The information content of monetary statistics for the Great Recession: Evidence from Germany," SFB 649 Discussion Papers 2015-027, Humboldt University Berlin, Collaborative Research Center 649: Economic Risk.
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    Monetary aggregates; Divisia index; recession indicator; Great Recession;
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    JEL classification:

    • E27 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
    • E51 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Money Supply; Credit; Money Multipliers
    • C43 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics - - - Index Numbers and Aggregation

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