Forecasting Non-Stationary Economic Time Series (Zeuthen Lectures)

Clements, Michael P.; Hendry, David F.

ISBN 10: 0262531895 / ISBN 13: 9780262531894

Editore: The MIT Press, 2001

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• Titolo: Forecasting Non-Stationary Economic Time Series (Zeuthen Lectures)
• Editore: The MIT Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0262531895
• ISBN 13: 9780262531894
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: New
• Peso: 18 once

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Economies evolve and are subject to sudden shifts precipitated by legislative changes, economic policy, major discoveries, and political turmoil. Macroeconometric models are a very imperfect tool for forecasting this highly complicated and changing process. Ignoring these factors leads to a wide discrepancy between theory and practice. In their second book on economic forecasting, Michael P. Clements and David F. Hendry ask why some practices seem to work empirically despite a lack of formal support from theory. After reviewing the conventional approach to economic forecasting, they look at the implications for causal modeling, present a taxonomy of forecast errors, and delineate the sources of forecast failure. They show that forecast-period shifts in deterministic factorsinteracting with model misspecification, collinearity, and inconsistent estimationare the dominant source of systematic failure. They then consider various approaches for avoiding systematic forecasting errors, including intercept corrections, differencing, co-breaking, and modeling regime shifts; they emphasize the distinction between equilibrium correction (based on cointegration) and error correction (automatically offsetting past errors). Finally, they present three applications to test the implications of their framework. Their results on forecasting have wider implications for the conduct of empirical econometric research, model formulation, the testing of economic hypotheses, and model-based policy analyses.

Informazioni sull?autore

Michael P. Clements is Research Fellow in Economics at the Universityof Warwick, UK.