Federal Forecasters Consortium

Thank you to all the presenters and participants at the 23rd Federal Forecasters Conference, FFC/2021, held on May 6, 2021.  Highlights from the conference including a recording of the plenary panel on the theme "Forecasting in the Presence of Missing Data" are linked below.  

Charter of the Federal Forecasters Consortium

Papers and Proceedings from Previous Conferences

• FFC2021 - The 23rd Federal Forecasters Conference-2021
  • FFC/2021 Program
  • Recording of the plenary panel on the theme "Forecasting in the Presence of Missing Data"
    • Panelists: Dennis Fixler, David Raglin, Jessica Banthin
    • Moderator: Neil Ericsson
    • Fixler slides
    • Papers from Jessica Banthin's presentation: Changes in Health Insurance Coverage Due to the COVID-19 Recession, Making Sense of Competing Estimates: The COVID-19 Recession's Effects on Health Insurance Coverage, What if the American Rescue Plan’s Enhanced Marketplace Subsidies Were Made Permanent? Estimates for 2022
  • Selected presentations and papers from the concurrent sessions (* indicates presenter at the conference):
    • Back to the Present: Learning about the Euro Area through a Now-casting Model Danilo Cascaldi-Garcia* (Federal Reserve Board), Thiago Ferreira, Domenico Giannone, Michele Modugno
    • How local is the local inflation factor? Evidence from Emerging European Countries Oguzhan Cepni* (Copenhagen Business School), Michael Clements
    • Standing on the Shoulders of Machine Learning: Can We Improve Hypothesis Testing? Gary Cornwall* (Bureau of Economic Analysis), Jeff Chen, Beau Sauley
    • A Randomized Missing Data Approach to Robust Filtering and Forecasting Dobrislav Dobrev* (Federal Reserve Board), Derek Hansen, Pawel Szerszen
    • Expectation dispersion, uncertainty, and the reaction to news Jonas Dovern* (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg), Benjamin Born, Zeno Enders 
    • Scalable Cloud-based Automatic Time Series Imputation Tammy Jackson* (SAS Institute Inc.), Michael Leonard, Thiago Quirino
    • Extracting Information from Different Expectations Andrew B. Martinez* (U.S. Department of the Treasury)
    • Ecce Signum: An R Software Package for Analyzing Multivariate Time Series Tucker S. McElroy* (U.S. Census Bureau), James Livsey
    • How Much is US Labor Productivity Revised? Peter Meyer* (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics), Kendra Asher, John Glaser, Jay Stewart, Jerin Varghese
    • What Do (and Don’t) Forecasters Know about U.S. Inflation? Jane Ryngaert* (Wake Forest University)  
• FFC2017 — The 22nd Federal Forecasters Conference-2017
• FFC2015 — The 21st Federal Forecasters Conference–2015
• FFC2014 — The 20th Federal Forecasters Conference–2014
• FFC2012 — The 19th Federal Forecasters Conference–2012
• FFC2011 — The 18th Federal Forecasters Conference–2011
• FFC2009 — The 17th Federal Forecasters Conference–2009
• FFC2008 — The 16th Federal Forecasters Conference–2008
• FFC2006 — The 15th Federal Forecasters Conference–2006
• FFC2005 — The 14th Federal Forecasters Conference–2005
• FFC2003 — The 13th Federal Forecasters Conference–2003
• FFC2002 — The 12th Federal Forecasters Conference–2002
• FFC2000 — The 11th Federal Forecasters Conference–2000
• FFC1999 — The 10th Federal Forecasters Conference–1999
• FFC1997 — The 9th Federal Forecasters Conference–1997
• FFC1994_96 —The 7th and 8th Federal Forecasters Conferences –1994&1996
• FFC1993 — The 6th Federal Forecasters Conference–1993 (Part 1 & Part 2)
• FFC1992 — The 5th Federal Forecasters Conference–1992
• FFC1991 — The 4th Federal Forecasters Conference–1991
• FFC1990 — The 3rd Federal Forecasters Conference –1990
• FFC1989 — The 2nd Federal Forecasters Conference–1989
• FFC1988 — The 1st Federal Forecasters Conference–1988