Predicting China’s Monetary Policy with Forecast Combinations

Laurent Pauwels

No BAWP-2019-07, Working Papers from University of Sydney Business School, Discipline of Business Analytics

Abstract: China’s monetary policy is unconventional and constantly evolving as a result of its rapid economic development. This paper proposes to use forecast combinations to predict the People’s Bank of China’s monetary policy stance with a large set of 73 macroeconomic and financial predictors covering various aspects of China’s economy. The multiple instruments utilised by the People’s Bank of China are aggregated into a Monetary Policy Index (MPI). The intention is to capture the overall monetary policy stance of the People’s Bank of China into a single variable that can be forecasted. Forecast combination assign weights to predictors according to their forecasting performance to produce a consensus forecast. The out-of-sample forecast results demonstrate that optimal forecast combinations are superior in predicting the MPI over other models such as the Taylor rule and simple autoregressive models. The corporate goods price index and the US nominal effective exchange rate are the most important predictors.

Keywords: Monetary policy indicators; China; forecast combination; optimal weights (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-05-14
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