Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/142088 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Citation: 
[Journal:] CBN Journal of Applied Statistics [ISSN:] 2476-8472 [Volume:] 06 [Issue:] 1 [Publisher:] The Central Bank of Nigeria [Place:] Abuja [Year:] 2015 [Pages:] 1-28
Publisher: 
The Central Bank of Nigeria, Abuja
Abstract: 
This paper proposes three short-term forecasting models for the adjusted external reserves using the seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average (SARIMA), seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average with an exogenous input (SARIMA-X) and an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) processes. The performances of the proposed models are compared with the existing model obtained using an autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) process using the pseudo-out-of-sample forecasting procedure over July 2013 to May 2014. The results show that SARIMA model outperformed the other models in three to six months forecast horizon, whereas ARDL model performs better in one to two months forecast horizon. Therefore, in forecasting external reserves in longer horizon, the paper concludes that seasonality should be accounted for by using the SARIMA model.
Subjects: 
External Reserves
ARIMA
SARIMA
SARIMA-X
ARDL
Statistical Loss Functions
JEL: 
E17
E31
Document Type: 
Article

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