A copula-VAR-X approach for industrial production modelling and forecasting

Carluccio Bianchi, Alessandro Carta, Dean Fantazzini, Maria Elena De Giuli and Mario Maggi

Applied Economics, 2010, vol. 42, issue 25, 3267-3277

Abstract: World economies, and especially European ones, have become strongly interconnected in the last decade and a joint modelling is required. We propose here the use of copulae to build flexible multivariate distributions, since they allow for a rich dependence structure and more flexible marginal distributions that better fit the features of empirical data, such as leptokurtosis. We use our approach to forecast industrial production series in the core European Monetary Union (EMU) countries and we provide evidence that the copula-Vector Autoregression (VAR) model outperforms or at worst compares similarly to normal VAR models, keeping the same computational tractability of the latter approach.

Date: 2010
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