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Indicadores Sintéticos para la Proyección de Imacec en Chile

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  • Gonzalo Calvo
  • Miguel Ricaurte

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This paper studies the informational content of synthetic indicators of economic activity for projecting the monthly index of economic activity (Imacec) for Chile. Comparing them to the Urrutia-Sánchez (2008) model, which employs energy production, and calendar and seasonal components to forecast the Imacec, models employing synthetic leading indicators and financial conditions indicators are competitive in terms of the MSFE. Moreover, we show that combinations of different forecasting strategies with small bias present improvements in terms of the MSFE with respect to individual models. We also show that, due to their inertial behavior, projections with synthetic indicators display errors that last for many periods after an exogenous event (such as an earthquake). Specifications with variables that quickly adjust to economic activity, such as energy consumption, do not have this problem.

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  • Gonzalo Calvo & Miguel Ricaurte, 2012. "Indicadores Sintéticos para la Proyección de Imacec en Chile," Working Papers Central Bank of Chile 656, Central Bank of Chile.
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    6. Luis Ceballos S. & Mario González F., 2012. "Indicador de Condiciones Económicas," Notas de Investigación Journal Economía Chilena (The Chilean Economy), Central Bank of Chile, vol. 15(1), pages 105-117, April.
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    1. Luis Ceballos S. & Miguel Fuentes D. & Damián Romero C., 2013. "Efectos del Riesgo Financiero en Fuentes de Financiamiento de Empresas, Hogares y Bancos," Notas de Investigación Journal Economía Chilena (The Chilean Economy), Central Bank of Chile, vol. 16(2), pages 134-148, August.
    2. Luis Ceballos S. & Mario González F., 2012. "Indicador de Condiciones Económicas," Notas de Investigación Journal Economía Chilena (The Chilean Economy), Central Bank of Chile, vol. 15(1), pages 105-117, April.

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