UK regional nowcasting using a mixed frequency vector autoregressive model

Gary Koop, Stuart McIntyre and James Mitchell

No 1805, Working Papers from University of Strathclyde Business School, Department of Economics

Abstract: Data on Gross Value Added (GVA) are currently only available at the annual frequency for the UK regions and are released with significant delay. Regional policymakers would benefit from more frequent and timely data. The goal of this paper is to provide these. We use a mixed frequency Vector Autoregression (VAR) to provide, each quarter, nowcasts (i.e. forecasts of current GVA which is as yet unknown due to release delays) of annual GVA growth for the UK regions. The information we use to update our regional nowcasts comes from GVA growth for the UK as a whole as this is released in a more timely and frequent (quarterly) fashion. To improve our nowcasts we use entropic tilting methods to exploit the restriction that UK GVA growth is a weighted average of GVA growth for the UK regions. In this paper, we develop the econometric methodology and test it in the context of a real time nowcasting exercise.

Keywords: Regional growth; nowcasting; mixed frequency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C22 C52 C53 E01 R1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37 pages
Date: 2018-07
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