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A Real-Time Assessment of Inflation Nowcasting at the Cleveland Fed

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  • Edward S. Knotek
  • Saeed Zaman

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Using a model based on staff research, the Cleveland Fed’s website provides daily nowcasts—or near-term predictions—of multiple US inflation measures for public use. In this Commentary, we compare the historical predictive accuracy of the model behind those inflation nowcasts with the accuracy of inflation nowcasts coming from competing sources: surveys of professional forecasters and alternative statistical models. We find that our inflation nowcasts have performed relatively well in these comparisons, both over a long sample and a short sample that focuses on the period since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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  • Edward S. Knotek & Saeed Zaman, 2023. "A Real-Time Assessment of Inflation Nowcasting at the Cleveland Fed," Economic Commentary, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, vol. 2023(06), pages 1-8, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:fip:fedcec:95742
    DOI: 10.26509/frbc-ec-202306
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