Further evidence on forecasting international GNP growth rates using unobserved components transfer function models

Antonio García Ferrer (), Juan del Hoyo Bernat, Peter C. Young and Alfonso Novales
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Antonio García Ferrer: Dpto. de Análisis Económico, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
Juan del Hoyo Bernat: Dpto. de Análisis Económico, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
Peter C. Young: Environmental Science Division, Lancaster University, U.K.

No 9312, Documentos de Trabajo del ICAE from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Instituto Complutense de Análisis Económico

Abstract: Forecast of international GNP growth rates are computed using a novel, onobserved components model that allows for estimating the trend and the perturbational components in GNPdata. The model is formulated in state space terms, and estimating using recursive methods of filtering and fixed interval smoothing, The decomposition crucially hinges on the choice of the Noise-Variance Ratio parameter. As any other signal extraction method, the choice of the relevants parameters affects the statistical characteristics of the estimated components. Here, we incororate a priori beliefs on the values of the NVR parameter leading to a decomposition with reasonable business cycle properties. Throughout the paper, forecast comparisons are made with other Bayesian and non-Bayesian alternatives.

Keywords: GNP; PIB/PNB. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 1993
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