Assessing the Macroeconomic Forecasting Performance of Boosting Evidence for the United States, the Euro Area, and Germany Teresa Buchen Klaus Wohlrabe CESIFO WORKING PAPER NO. 4148 CATEGORY 6: FISCAL POLICY, MACROECONOMICS AND GROWTH MARCH 2013 An electronic version of the paper may be downloaded • from the SSRN website: www.SSRN.com • from the RePEc website: www.RePEc.org • from the CESifo website: www.CESifo-group.org/wp