Federal funds rate prediction

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Federal funds rate prediction

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Lucio Sarno
Daniel L. Thornton
Giorgio Valente

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We examine the forecasting performance of a range of time-series models of the daily US effective federal funds (FF) rate recently proposed in the literature. We find that: (i) most of the models and predictor variables considered produce satisfactory one-day-ahead forecasts of the FF rate; (ii) the best forecasting model is a simple univariate model where the future FF rate is forecast using the current difference between the FF rate and its target; (iii) combining the forecasts from various models generally yields modest improvements on the best performing model. These results have a natural interpretation and clear policy implications.

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Paper provided by Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis in its series Working Papers with number 2002-005.

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- Sarno, Lucio & Thornton, Daniel L & Valente, Giorgio, 2005. "Federal Funds Rate Prediction," Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 37(3), pages 449-71, June.
Paper
- Sarno, Lucio & Daniel l Thornton & Giorgio Valente, 2003. "Federal Funds Rate Prediction," Royal Economic Society Annual Conference 2003 183, Royal Economic Society. [Downloadable!]
- Giorgio Valente & Daniel Thornton & Lucio Sarno, 2004. "Federal Funds Rate Prediction," Working Papers wp04-12, Warwick Business School, Financial Econometrics Research Centre. [Downloadable!]
- Sarno, Lucio & Thornton, Daniel L & Valente, Giorgio, 2004. "Federal Funds Rate Prediction," CEPR Discussion Papers 4587, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

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NEP-ALL-2002-07-04 (All new papers)
NEP-CBA-2002-07-04 (Central Banking)
NEP-FIN-2002-07-04 (Finance)
NEP-MON-2002-07-04 (Monetary Economics)

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