Chapter Index

The GVAR Handbook:

Structure and Applications of a Macro Model

of the Global Economy for Policy Analysis

Edited by Filippo di Mauro and M. Hashem Pesaran

Chapter Index

1. Filippo di Mauro and M. Hashem Pesaran: Introduction

2. Filippo di Mauro and L. Vanessa Smith: The Basic GVAR DdPS Model

INTERNATIONAL TRANSMISSION AND FORECASTING

3. Anthony Garratt, Kevin Lee, and Kalvinder Shields: Global Recessions and Output Interdependencies in a GVAR Model of Actual and Expected Output in the G7

4. Ron P. Smith: The GVAR Approach to Structural Modelling

5. Alessandro Galesi and Marco J. Lombardi: External Shocks and International Inflation Linkages

6. Sandra Eickmeier and Tim Ng: International Business Cycles and the Role of Financial Markets

7. Matthew Greenwood-Nimmo, Viet Hoang Nguyen, and Yongcheol Shin: Using Global VAR Models for Scenario-based Forecasting and Policy Analysis

8. L. Vanessa Smith: Short and medium-term forecasting using 'pooling' techniques

FINANCE APPLICATIONS

9. Silvia Lui and James Mitchell: Nowcasting Quarterly Euro Area GDP Growth using a Global VAR Model

10. Alexander Al-Haschimi and Stéphane Dees: Macroprudential Applications of the GVAR

11. Carlo A. Favero: Modelling Sovereign Bond Spreads in the Euro Area: A Non-linear Global VAR Model

12. C. Nickel and I. Vansteenkist: The International Spillover of Fiscal Spending on Financial Variables

REGIONAL APPLICATIONS

13. Ambrogio Cesa-Bianchi, M. Hashem Pesaran, Alessandro Rebucci, and TengTeng Xu: China's Emergence in the World Economy and Business Cycles in Latin America

14. David Fielding, Kevin Lee, and Kalvinder Shields: Does One Size Fit All? Modelling Macroeconomic Linkages in the West African Economic and Monetary Union

15. Stéphane Dees: Competitiveness, External Imbalances, and Economic Linkages in the Euro Area

16. Katrin Assenmacher: Forecasting the Swiss Economy with a Small GVAR Model

17. Alessandro Galesi and Silvia Sgherri: Regional Financial Spillovers Across Europe

18. Filippo di Mauro and M. Hashem Pesaran: Conclusion