Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/264740 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 148
Publisher: 
Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB), Vienna
Abstract: 
The New Keynesian Phillips Curve, as a structural model of inflation dynamics, has mostly been used to explain past inflation developments, but has hardly been used for forecasting purposes. We propose a method of forecasting inflation based on the present-value formulation of the hybrid New Keynesian Phillips Curve. To evaluate the forecasting performance of this model we compare it with forecasts generated from time series models at different forecast horizons. As state-of-the-art time series models used in inflation forecasting we employ a Bayesian VAR, a traditional VAR and a simple autoregressive model. We find that the New Keynesian Phillips Curve delivers relatively more accurate forecasts compared to the other models for longer forecast horizons (more than 3 months) while they are outperformed by the time series models only for the very short forecast horizon. This is consistent with the finding in the literature that structural models are able to outperform time series models only for longer horizons.
Subjects: 
New Keynesian Phillips Curve
Inflation Forecasting
Forecast Evaluation
Bayesian VAR
JEL: 
E31
C32
C53
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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