Autori
LUETKEPOHL, Helmut
BRUEGGEMANN, Ralf

Titolo
Forecasting Contemporaneous Aggregates with Stochastic Aggregation Weights
Periodico
European University Institute of Badia Fiesolana (Fi). Department of Economics - Working papers
Anno: 2011 - Fascicolo: 17 - Pagina iniziale: 1 - Pagina finale: 20

Many contemporaneously aggregated variables have stochasticaggregation weights. We compare different forecasts for such variables including univariate forecasts of the aggregate, a multivariate forecast of the aggregate that uses information from the disaggregate components, a forecast which aggregates a multivariate forecast of the disaggregate components and the aggregation weights, and a forecast which aggregates univariate forecasts for individual disaggregate components and the aggregation weights. In empirical illustrations based on aggregate GDP and money growth rates, we find forecast efficiency gains from using the information in the stochastic aggregation weights. A Monte Carlo study confirms that using the information on stochastic aggregation weights explicitly may result in forecast mean squared error reductions.




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