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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2013
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 1537
Verlag: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Zusammenfassung: 
Prediction of macroeconomic aggregates is one of the primary functions of macroeconometric models, including dynamic factor models, dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models, and vector autoregressions. This study establishes methods that improve the predictions of these models, using a representative model from each class and a canonical 7-variable postwar US data set. It focuses on prediction over the period 1966 through 2011. It measures the quality of prediction by the probability densities assigned to the actual values of these variables, one quarter ahead, by the predictive distributions of the models in real time. Two steps lead to substantial improvement. The first is to use full Bayesian predictive distributions rather than substitute a "plug-in" posterior mode for parameters. Across models and quarters, this leads to a mean improvement in probability of 50.4%. The second is to use an equally-weighted pool of predictive densities from the three models, which leads to a mean improvement in probability of 41.9% over the full Bayesian predictive distributions of the individual models. This improvement is much better than that a¤orded by Bayesian model averaging. The study uses several analytical tools, including pooling, analysis of predictive variance, and probability integral transform tests, to understand and interpret the improvements.
Schlagwörter: 
Analysis of variance
Bayesian model averaging
dynamic factor model
dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model
prediction pools
probability integral transform test
vector autoregression model
JEL: 
C11
C51
C53
Dokumentart: 
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