Arbeitspapier

Forecasting Tail Risks

Reliable early warning signals are essential for timely implementation of macroeconomic and macro-prudential policies. This paper presents an early warning system as a set of multi-period forecasts of indicators of tail real and financial (systemic) risks. Forecasts are obtained from: (a) autoregressive and factor-augmented VARs with linear GARCH volatility (FAVARs), and (b) auto-regressive and factor-augmented Quantile Projections (QPs). We use a large database of monthly U.S. data for the period 1972:1-2014:12 to forecasts our tail risk indicators with each model in pseudo-real time. Our key finding is that forecasts obtained with autoregressive and FAVAR models significantly underestimate tail risks, while forecasts obtained with autoregressive and factor-augmented QPs deliver superior and fairly reliable early warning signals for tail real and financial risks up to a one-year horizon.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 5286

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Econometric Modeling: General
Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles: General (includes Measurement and Data)
Financial Institutions and Services: General
Thema
tail risks
density forecasts
factor models
quantile projections

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
De Nicolò, Gianni
Lucchetta, Marcella
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2015

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • De Nicolò, Gianni
  • Lucchetta, Marcella
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2015

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