TY - GEN EP - 8 ID - heidok18381 CY - Heidelberg T3 - Discussion Paper Series, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics N2 - We present evidence that global vectorautoregressive (GVAR) models produce significantly more accurate recession forecasts than country-specific time-series models in a Bayesian framework. This result holds for most countries and forecast horizons as well as for several country groups. UR - https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/18381/ Y1 - 2015/03// KW - GVAR KW - recession forecast KW - QPS KW - probability forecast TI - Global Prediction of Recessions A1 - Dovern, Jonas A1 - Huber, Florian AV - public ER -