Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/62803 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 554
Publisher: 
Queen Mary University of London, Department of Economics, London
Abstract: 
This paper compares forecast performance of the ALI method and the MESMs and seeks ways of improving the ALI method. Inflation and GDP growth form the forecast objects for comparison, using data from China, Indonesia and the Philippines. The ALI method is found to produce better forecasts than those by MESMs in general, but the method is found to involve greater uncertainty in choosing indicators, mixing data frequencies and utilizing unrestricted VARs. Two possible improvements are found helpful to reduce the uncertainty: (i) give theory priority in choosing indicators and include theory-based disequilibrium shocks in the indicator sets; and (ii) reduce the VARs by means of the general→specific model reduction procedure.
Subjects: 
Dynamic factor models, Model reduction, VAR
JEL: 
E31
C53
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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