The cyclical component factor model

Christian Dahl (), Henrik Hansen () and John Smidt

International Journal of Forecasting, 2009, vol. 25, issue 1, pages 119-127

Abstract: Forecasting using factor models based on large data sets has received ample attention due to the models' ability to increase forecast accuracy with respect to a range of key macroeconomic variables in the US and the UK. However, forecasts based on such factor models do not uniformly outperform the simple autoregressive model when using data from other countries. In this paper we propose to estimate the factors based on the pure cyclical components of the series entering the large data set. Monte Carlo evidence and an empirical illustration using Danish data shows that this procedure can indeed improve on pseudo real time forecast accuracy.

Keywords: Factor; model; Cyclical; components; Estimation; Real; time; forecasting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009

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