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10th ECB Workshop on Forecasting Techniques: Economic Forecasting with Large Datasets

The European Central Bank (ECB) is holding its tenth Workshop on Forecasting Techniques in Frankfurt am Main on 18 and 19 June 2018.

This biennial conference provides a forum for new theoretical and applied work on forecasting. Macroeconomists today have more – and richer – data at their disposal than ever before. Many of these datasets are not only very large, but also unstructured, not rectangular, or irregularly spaced. Fully tapping the embedded information for forecasters and policymakers requires new methods and tools.

This conference will bring together experts from all fields to exchange new ideas on utilising large datasets for macroeconomic and financial forecasting and to put new insights from econometric and statistical theory into practice in the current macroeconomic environment.

Scientific committee

Barbara Rossi (ICREA – Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona GSE, CREI) and Carlos Montes-Galdon, Georg Strasser and Srečko Zimic (all ECB).

Attendance is upon invitation only.

Programme

Monday, 18 June 2018

* indicates the presenter

8:30
Registration and coffee
9:00

Welcome address

Matteo Ciccarelli, European Central Bank

9:10

Part I

Chair: Barbara Rossi, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Keynote speech

Learning to analyze economic data using machine learning methods

Serena Ng*, Columbia University

9:55

Common factors, trends, and cycles in large datasets

Matteo Luciani*, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
with Matteo Barigozzi, London School of Economics slides

Discussant: Siem Jan Koopman, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Tinbergen Institute

10:40
Coffee break
11:00

Multivariate Bayesian predictive synthesis in macroeconomic forecasting

Knut A. Aastveit*, Norges Bank and BI Norwegian Business School
with Kenichiro McAlinn, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business;
Jouchi Nakajima, Bank for International Settlements;
and Mike West, Duke University slides

Discussant: Xuguang S. Sheng, American University

11:45

On the evolution of the United Kingdom price distributions

Kim Huynh*, Bank of Canada
with Ba M. Chu, Carleton University;
David T. Jacho-Chávez, Emory University;
and Oleksiy Kryvtsov, Bank of Canada slides

Discussant: Fabrizio Venditti, Banca d'Italia

12:30

Lunch and poster session

Poster Session

Poster 1: A new approach for detecting shifts in forecast accuracy

Jeremy Chiu*, Bank of England
with Simon Hayes, Bank of England;
George Kapetanios, Kings College London;
and Konstantinos Theodoridis, Cardiff University

Poster 2: Nonlinear dynamic factor models

Pablo Guerrón-Quintana*, Boston College
with Alexey Khazanov, Boston College;
and Molin Zhong, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System poster

Poster 3: Nonlinear dynamic factor models with interacting level and volatility

Siem Jan Koopman*, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Tinbergen Institute
with Geert Mesters, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Barcelona Graduate School of Economics;
and Bernd Schwaab, European Central Bank

Poster 4: Forecasting with many predictors using message passing algorithms

Dimitris Korobilis*, University of Essex poster

Poster 5: The global component of inflation volatility

Massimiliano Marcellino*, Università Bocconi
with Andrea Carriero, Queen Mary University of London;
and Francesco Corsello, Bank of Italy and Università Bocconi

Poster 6: A new approach to nowcasting with mixed-frequency Bayesian VARs

Francesca Monti*, Bank of England and Centre for Macroeconomics
with Domenico Giannone, Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Centre for Economic Policy Research;
and Andrej Sokol, Bank of England and Centre for Macroeconomics

Poster 7: Expectation formation following large unexpected shocks

Xuguang S. Sheng*, American University
with Scott R. Baker, Northwestern University;
and Tucker S. McElroy, U.S. Census Bureau

Poster 8: Adaptive discrete smoothing with an application to (high-dimensional) nonlinear panel data

Martin Spindler*, Universität Hamburg
with Xi Chen, New York University;
Victor Chernozhukov, Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
and Ye Luo, University of Florida

Poster 9: Adaptive state space models with applications to the business cycle and financial stress

Fabrizio Venditti*, Banca d'Italia
with Davide D. Monache, Banca d'Italia;
and Ivan Petrella, Warwick Business School and Centre for Economic Policy Research poster

14:30

Part 2

Chair: Michael Ehrmann, European Central Bank

Keynote speech Invariance and causality for robust predictions

Peter Bühlmann*, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich

15:15
Coffee break
15:35

Forecasting with a panel Tobit model

Frank Schorfheide*, University of Pennsylvania
with Laura Liu, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System;
and Hyungsik R. Moon, University of Southern California and Yonsei University slides

Discussant: Martin Spindler, Universität Hamburg

16:20

A multiple testing approach to the regularisation of large sample correlation matrices

Natalia Bailey*, Monash University
with Hashem Pesaran, University of Southern California;
and L. Vanessa Smith, University of York slides

Discussant: Massimiliano Marcellino, Università Bocconi

17:05

Break

17:10

Panel discussion: (Macroeconomic) Forecasting with big data: What works? What doesn't? What's next?

Moderator: Giorgio Primiceri, Northwestern University

Peter Bühlmann, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
Francis X. Diebold, University of Pennsylvania
Serena Ng, Columbia University
Hal Varian, Google Inc.

19:15
Dinner (by invitation only)
Tuesday, 19 June 2018
9:00
Registration and coffee
9:30

Part 3

Chair: Isabel Vansteenkiste, European Central Bank

Keynote speech Out of controls

Hal Varian*, Google Inc.

10:15

Macroeconomic nowcasting with big data through the lens of a sparse factor model

Laurent Ferrara*, Banque de France
with Anna Simoni, Centre de Recherche en Economie et en Statistiques and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique slides

Discussant: Francesca Monti, Bank of England and Centre for Macroeconomics

11:00
Coffee break
11:20

Does modeling a structural break improve forecast accuracy?

Andreas Pick*, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, Tinbergen Institute, De Nederlandsche Bank and CESifo Institute
with Tom Boot, University of Groningen slides

Discussant: Jeremy Chiu, Bank of England

12:05
Lunch
13:30

Part 4

Chair: Geoff Kenny, European Central Bank

Keynote speech Big data tools and small data surveys

Francis X. Diebold*, University of Pennsylvania

14:15

Economic predictions with big data: the illusion of sparsity

Giorgio Primiceri*, Northwestern University
with Domenico Giannone, Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Centre for Economic Policy Research;
and Michele Lenza, European Central Bank slides

Discussant: Pablo Guerrón-Quintana, Boston College

15:00
Coffee break
15:20

Large-scale dynamic predictive regressions

Daniele Bianchi*, University of Warwick
with Kenichiro McAlinn, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business slides

Discussant: Mike West, Duke University

16:05

Predictive density combinations with dynamic learning for large data sets in economics and finance

Herman van Dijk*, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, Norges Bank and Tinbergen Institute with
Roberto Casarin, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia;
Stefano Grassi, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata";
and Francesco Ravazzolo, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and Norges Bank slides

Discussant: Dimitris Korobilis, University of Essex

16:50

Concluding remarks

Geoff Kenny, European Central Bank

 
End of workshop

General information

Conference venue

European Central Bank
Main building – Press centre, room C5.01
Sonnemannstrasse 20
60314 Frankfurt am Main

+49 69 1344 0
info@ecb.europa.eu
Conference language

English

Conference organisers

Marta Bańbura, European Central Bank

Carlos Montes-Galdón, European Central Bank

Barbara Rossi, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Georg Strasser, European Central Bank

Srečko Zimic, European Central Bank

Transfers

Participants are requested to arrange their own transfers from and to the airport, unless indicated otherwise.

Lunch and poster session venues

Press room foyer

Time frame for presenters

For each paper, the author will speak for 25 minutes and the discussant for 15 minutes. This will be followed by a general discussion lasting five minutes.

Contact

Ms Iris Bettenhäuser
Directorate General Research
Monetary Policy Research Division
conf-forecasting@ecb.europa.eu

Please note that this programme may be subject to change without notice.