Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/26161 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 2116
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We investigate the effect of forecast uncertainty in a cointegrating vector error correction model for Switzerland. Forecast uncertainty is evaluated in three different dimensions. First, we investigate the effect on forecasting performance of averaging over forecasts from different models. Second, we look at different estimation windows. We find that averaging over estimation windows is at least as effective as averaging over different models and both complement each other. Third, we explore whether using weighting schemes from the machine learning literature improves the average forecast. Compared to equal weights the effect of the weighting scheme on forecast accuracy is small in our application.
Subjects: 
Bayesian model averaging
choice of observation window
long-run structural vector autoregression
JEL: 
C53
C32
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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