Macroeconomic Forecasting and Structural Change

Antonello D'Agostino, Luca Gambetti and Domenico Giannone

No 2009_020, Working Papers ECARES from ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles

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 Coe±cients 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 naaive 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; infation; stochastic Volatility; time varying vector autoregression. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C32 E37 E47 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 p.
Date: 2009
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