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ADVANCES IN ECONOMETRICS - VOLUME 44A

ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF FABIO CANOVA

EDITED BY

JUAN J. DOLADO

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

LUCA GAMBETTI

Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain, Universitá di Torino, Italy

And

CHRISTIAN MATTHES

Indiana University, USA

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List of Contributorsvii
Introduction 
Juan J. Dolado, Luca Gambetti and Christian Matthes1
Chapter 1: Real-time Real Economic Activity: Entering and Exiting the Pandemic Recession of 2020 
Francis X. Diebold5
Chapter 2: State Correlation and Forecasting: A Bayesian Approach Using Unobserved Components Models 
Luis Uzeda25
Chapter 3: On Identification Issues in Business Cycle Accounting Models 
Pedro Brinca, Nikolay Iskrev and Francesca Loria55
Chapter 4: The Effect of News Shocks and Monetary Policy 
Luca Gambetti, Christoph Görtz, Dimitris Korobilis, John D. Tsoukalas and Francesco Zanetti139
Chapter 5: Statistical Identification of Economic Shocks by Signs in Structural Vector Autoregression 
Markku Lanne and Jani Luoto165
Chapter 6: Skewed SVARs: Tracking the Structural Sources of Macroeconomic Tail Risks 
Carlos Montes-Galdón and Eva Ortega177
Index211
Pedro BrincaNova School of Business and Economics, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
Francis X. DieboldUniversity of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, PA, USA
Juan J. DoladoUniversidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Luca GambettiUniversitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain, Universitá di Torino, Italy
Christoph GörtzUniversity of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Nikolay IskrevBanco de Portugal, Lisboa, Portugal
Dimitris KorobilisUniversity of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
Markku LanneFaculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Francesca LoriaBoard of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington, DC, USA
Jani LuotoFaculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Christian MatthesIndiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
Carlos Montes-GaldónForecasting and Policy Modelling Division, Directorate General Economics, European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Eva OrtegaDirectorate General Economics, Statistics and Research, Banco de España, Spain
John D. TsoukalasUniversity of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
Luis UzedaBank of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Francesco ZanettiUniversity of Oxford, Oxford, UK