Forecasting with High-Dimensional Panel VARs

Gary Koop and Dimitris Korobilis

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Abstract: This paper develops methods for estimating and forecasting in Bayesian panel vector autoregressions of large dimensions with time-varying parameters and stochastic volatility. We exploit a hierarchical prior that takes into account possible pooling restrictions involving both VAR coefficients and the error covariance matrix, and propose a Bayesian dynamic learning procedure that controls for various sources of model uncertainty. We tackle computational concerns by means of a simulation-free algorithm that relies on an analytical approximation of the posterior distribution. We use our methods to forecast inflation rates in the eurozone and show that forecasts from our flexible specification are superior to alternative methods for large vector autoregressions.

Keywords: Panel VAR; inflation forecasting; Bayesian; time-varying parameter model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C1 C11 C15 C32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-12, Revised 2018-01-31
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