Forecasting Inflation in a Macroeconomic Framework: An Application to Tunisia

Souhaïb Chamseddine Zardi
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Souhaïb Chamseddine Zardi: Central Bank of Tunisia

No 07-2017, IHEID Working Papers from Economics Section, The Graduate Institute of International Studies

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to evaluate the relative performance of different forecasts of inflation methods for the case of Tunisia. For that, we use a large number of econometric models to forecast short-run inflation. Specifically, we use univariate models as Random Walk, SARIMA, a Time Varying Parameter model and a suite of multivariate autoregressive models as Bayesian VAR and Dynamic Factor models. The forecasting results suggest that models which incorporate more economic information outperform the benchmark random walk for the first two quarters ahead. Furthermore, we combine our forecasts by means and the results reveal that the combination of forecasts leads to a reduction in forecast errors compared to individual models.

Keywords: Short-run forecasting; Dynamic Factor Models; Forecast combination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 2017-03
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