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MIDAS modeling for core inflation forecasting

A forecasting exercise is presented to assess the predictive potential of a daily price index based on online prices, compiled by web scrapping by the private company PriceStats in cooperation with a finance research corporation, State Street Global Markets, as a predictor for a measure of the monthly core inflation rate in Argentina, known as "resto IPCBA" and published by the Statistics Office of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires. Mixed frequency regression models offer a convenient arrangement to accommodate variables sampled at different frequencies and hence many specifications are tested. Various classes of MIDAS models are found to produce a slight boost in terms of out-of-sample predictive performance at immediate horizons when compared to benchmark naïve models and estimators. Additionally, an analysis of intraperiod forecasts, reveals a slight trend towards increased forecast accuracy as the daily variable approaches a full month for certain horizons.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Economic Research Working Papers ; No. 72

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes
Forecasting Models; Simulation Methods
Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles: Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
Thema
MIDAS
distributedlags
coreinflation
forecasting

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Libonatti, Luis
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Banco Central de la República Argentina (BCRA), Investigaciones Económicas (ie)
(wo)
Buenos Aires
(wann)
2017

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Libonatti, Luis
  • Banco Central de la República Argentina (BCRA), Investigaciones Económicas (ie)

Entstanden

  • 2017

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