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title: Enhancing Inflation Forecasts
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/5092410/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 5092410
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5092410
featured: 2025-01-15
citations: unknown
topic: Macro-Finance & Rates
---


# Enhancing Inflation Forecasts

A thick modeling approach combining time and frequency-domain models enhances inflation forecasts, particularly during periods of high inflation volatility.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5092410
- Identifier: SSRN 5092410
- Released: 2025-01-10
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 82 (2025-01-15): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2025-01-15/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Macro-Finance & Rates

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