Forecasting the duration of short†term deflation episodes

Wojciech Charemza, Svetlana Makarova and Yinkai Wu

Journal of Forecasting, 2018, vol. 37, issue 4, 475-488

Abstract: The paper proposes a simulation†based approach to multistep probabilistic forecasting, applied for predicting the probability and duration of negative inflation. The essence of this approach is in counting runs simulated from a multivariate distribution representing the probabilistic forecasts, which enters the negative inflation regime. The marginal distributions of forecasts are estimated using the series of past forecast errors, and the joint distribution is obtained by a multivariate copula approach. This technique is applied for estimating the probability of negative inflation in China and its expected duration, with the marginal distributions computed by fitting weighted skew†normal and two†piece normal distributions to autoregressive moving average ex post forecast errors and using the multivariate Student t copula.

Date: 2018
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