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The macroeconomic forecasting performance of autoregressive models with alternative specifications of time-varying volatility

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  • Todd E. Clark

    () (Federal Reserve bank of Cleveland)

  • Francesco Ravazzolo

    () (Norges Bank (Central Bank of Norway) and BI Norwegian Business School)

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This paper compares alternative models of time-varying macroeconomic volatility on the basis of the accuracy of point and density forecasts of macroeconomic variables. In this analysis, we consider both Bayesian autoregressive and Bayesian vector autoregressive models that incorporate some form of time-varying volatility, precisely stochastic volatility (both with constant and time-varying autoregressive coefficients), stochastic volatility following a stationary AR process, stochastic volatility coupled with fat tails, GARCH and mixture of innovation models. The comparison is based on the accuracy of forecasts of key macroeconomic time series for real-time post War-II data both for the United States and United Kingdom. The results show that the AR and VAR specifications with widely-used stochastic volatility dominate models with alternative volatility specifications, in terms of point forecasting to some degree and density forecasting to a greater degree.

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Paper provided by Norges Bank in its series Working Paper with number 2012/09.

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Length: 46 pages
Date of creation: 09 Oct 2012
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Handle: RePEc:bno:worpap:2012_09

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Keywords: Stochastic volatility; GARCH; forecasting;

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  1. Monica Billio & Roberto Casarin & Francesco Ravazzolo & Herman K. van Dijk, 2012. "Time-varying Combinations of Predictive Densities using Nonlinear Filtering," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 12-118/III, Tinbergen Institute.

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