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The continuing power of the yield spread in forecasting recessions,” Working Papers 14-5, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. (2014)

by D Croushore, K Marsten
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A Service of zbw Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft Leibniz Information Centre for Economics What predicts U.S. recessions? What Predicts U.S. Recessions?

by Weiling ; Liu , Emanuel Moench , Weiling Liu , Emanuel Moench
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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen: Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden. Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen. Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in Abstract We reassess the predictability of U.S. recessions at horizons from three months to two years ahead for a large number of previously proposed leading-indicator variables. We employ an efficient probit estimator for partially missing data and assess relative model performance based on the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. While the Treasury term spread has the highest predictive power at horizons four to six quarters ahead, adding lagged observations of the term spread significantly improves the predictability of recessions at shorter horizons. Moreover, balances in broker-dealer margin accounts significantly improve the precision of recession predictions, especially at horizons further out than one year.
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...g predictive power of government bond yield spreads in other countries. For example, Duarte, Venetis, and Paya (2005) find that yield spreads predict recessions in the European Monetary Union. Moreover, examining both the U.S. and Germany, Nyberg (2010) concludes that the domestic term spread remains the best recession predictor. Recently, Rudebusch and Williams (2009) have found that the term spread consistently outperforms even professional forecastors in predicting recessions. This is surprising as these forecasters have a wealth of information and many other indicators available to them. Croushore and Marsten (2014) confirm that Rudebusch and Williams’ findings are robust across several dimensions including the sample choice, the use of rolling regression windows, and various measures of real output. Moreover, Lahiri, Monokroussos, and Zhao (2013) report that the result remains valid even after further augmenting the model with factors extracted from a large macroeconomic dataset. These papers’ findings highlight the singular importance of the Treasury term spread as a predictor of recessions and justify our use of this indicator as the benchmark predictor variable. Methodologically, our paper borrows fr...

What Predicts U.S. Recessions?

by Weiling Liu, Emanuel Moench, Weiling Liu, Emanuel Moench, Jel Classification C , 2014
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This paper presents preliminary findings and is being distributed to economists and other interested readers solely to stimulate discussion and elicit comments. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the position of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York or the Federal Reserve System. Any errors or omissions are the responsibility of the authors.
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