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Improving the Predictive Power of Spreads for Economic Activity: A Wavelet Method

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  • Chang Min LEE

    (Financial Market Analysis Division, Financial Services Commission, Korea.)

  • Hahn Shik LEE

    (Corresponding author. Department of Economics, Sogang University, Korea)

Abstract

In this paper, we examine whether and to what extent the predictive power of credit spread for real economic activity can be enhanced by using additional information via wavelet approach. In doing so, we first apply the wavelet analysis to the Korean real GDP data, and present evidence that the business-cycle component of wavelet-filtered series closely resembles the series obtained from an approximate band-pass filter. Given the recent empirical findings that the credit spread has a useful explanatory power for future economic fluctuations, we also suggest that the business-cycle component of the credit spread can better predict the probability of a recession than the usual time- domain analysis. The wavelet methodology used in this paper can naturally be applied to any sets of economic and financial time series to unveil their structures and hence to enhance their predictive contents.

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  • Chang Min LEE & Hahn Shik LEE, 2016. "Improving the Predictive Power of Spreads for Economic Activity: A Wavelet Method," Journal for Economic Forecasting, Institute for Economic Forecasting, vol. 0(4), pages 65-78, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:rjr:romjef:v::y:2016:i:4:p:65-78
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    Keywords

    credit spread; business cycle; wavelet decomposition;
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    JEL classification:

    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
    • E43 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects
    • C25 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions; Probabilities

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