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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2007
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
Bank of Canada Working Paper No. 2007-8
Verlag: 
Bank of Canada, Ottawa
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This paper evaluates the performance of static and dynamic factor models for forecasting Canadian real output growth and core inflation on a quarterly basis. We extract the common component from a large number of macroeconomic indicators, and use the estimates to compute out-of-sample forecasts under a recursive and a rolling scheme with different window sizes. Forecasts from factor models are compared with those from AR(p) models as well as IS- and Phillips-curve models. We find that factor models can improve the forecast accuracy relative to standard benchmark models, for horizons of up to 8 quarters. Forecasts from our proposed factor models are also less prone to committing large errors, in particular when the horizon increases. We further show that the choice of the sampling-scheme has a large influence on the overall forecast accuracy, with smallest rolling-window samples generating superior results to larger samples, implying that using limited-memory” estimators contribute to improve the quality of the forecasts.
Schlagwörter: 
Econometric and statistical methods
JEL: 
C32
E37
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