Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/72062
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
WTO Staff Working Paper No. ERSD-2006-05
Publisher: 
World Trade Organization (WTO), Geneva
Abstract: 
This paper develops a set of time series models to provide short-term forecasts (6 to 18 months ahead) of international trade both at the global level and for selected regions. Our results compare favourably to other forecasts, notably by the International Monetary Fund, as measured by standard evaluation measures, such as the root mean square forecast error. In comparison to other models, our approach offers several methodological advantages, inter alia, a focus on import growth as the core variable, the avoidance of certain difficulties affecting the performance of structural models, the selection of variables and lags on the basis of theoretical considerations and empirical testing as well as a full documentation of the modelling process.
Subjects: 
Forecasting
time series
international trade
WTO
JEL: 
F17
C53
C32
C22
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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