Can Forecasting Performance of the Bayesian Factor-Augmented VAR be Improved by Considering the Steady-State? An application to Swedish inflation
(2017) NEKN01 20171Department of Economics
- Abstract
- This paper investigates whether the forecasting performance of Bayesian factor-augmented VAR (BFAVAR) models can be improved by incorporating an informative prior on the steady-state of the time series in the system. The BFAVAR model is compared to the extended steady-state BFAVAR in an application to forecasting Swedish inflation, making use of data from 1996 to 2016. Results show that the out-of-sample forecasting performance of incorporating an informative prior into the BFAVAR models increase compared to an autoregressive model. When comparing BFAVAR models with and without an informative prior on the steady-state, the BFAVAR model with an informative prior marginally outperform the BFAVAR model without the informative prior. The... (More)
- This paper investigates whether the forecasting performance of Bayesian factor-augmented VAR (BFAVAR) models can be improved by incorporating an informative prior on the steady-state of the time series in the system. The BFAVAR model is compared to the extended steady-state BFAVAR in an application to forecasting Swedish inflation, making use of data from 1996 to 2016. Results show that the out-of-sample forecasting performance of incorporating an informative prior into the BFAVAR models increase compared to an autoregressive model. When comparing BFAVAR models with and without an informative prior on the steady-state, the BFAVAR model with an informative prior marginally outperform the BFAVAR model without the informative prior. The results of this paper indicate that most of the gains in forecasting performance by incorporating an informative prior on the steady-state are associated with longer forecasting horizons. (Less)
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- author
- Lindvall, Andreas LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- NEKN01 20171
- year
- 2017
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- keywords
- Bayesian factor-augmented VAR, Steady-state, Inflation, Out-of-sample forecasting precision
- language
- English
- id
- 8911717
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- 2017-07-10 13:53:24
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@misc{8911717, abstract = {{This paper investigates whether the forecasting performance of Bayesian factor-augmented VAR (BFAVAR) models can be improved by incorporating an informative prior on the steady-state of the time series in the system. The BFAVAR model is compared to the extended steady-state BFAVAR in an application to forecasting Swedish inflation, making use of data from 1996 to 2016. Results show that the out-of-sample forecasting performance of incorporating an informative prior into the BFAVAR models increase compared to an autoregressive model. When comparing BFAVAR models with and without an informative prior on the steady-state, the BFAVAR model with an informative prior marginally outperform the BFAVAR model without the informative prior. The results of this paper indicate that most of the gains in forecasting performance by incorporating an informative prior on the steady-state are associated with longer forecasting horizons.}}, author = {{Lindvall, Andreas}}, language = {{eng}}, note = {{Student Paper}}, title = {{Can Forecasting Performance of the Bayesian Factor-Augmented VAR be Improved by Considering the Steady-State? An application to Swedish inflation}}, year = {{2017}}, }