Macroeconomic Forecasting and Structural Change

Domenico Giannone, D’Agostino, Antonello and Luca Gambetti
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Antonello D'Agostino

No 7542, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to assess whether explicitly modeling structural change increases the accuracy of macroeconomic forecasts. We produce real time out-of-sample forecasts for inflation, the unemployment rate and the interest rate using a Time-Varying Coefficients VAR with Stochastic Volatility (TV-VAR) for the US. The model generates accurate predictions for the three variables. In particular for inflation the TV-VAR outperforms, in terms of mean square forecast error, all the competing models: fixed coefficients VARs, Time-Varying ARs and the naïve random walk model. These results are also shown to hold over the most recent period in which it has been hard to forecast inflation.

Keywords: Forecasting; inflation; stochastic volatility; Time varying vector autoregression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C32 E37 E47 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-11
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cba, nep-ecm, nep-ets, nep-for, nep-mac and nep-ore
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