Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/87216 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. 12-020/4
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
We study whether and when parameter-driven time-varying parameter models lead to forecasting gains over observation-driven models. We consider dynamic count, intensity, duration, volatility and copula models, including new specifications that have not been studied earlier in the literature. In an extensive Monte Carlo study, we find that observation-driven generalised autoregressive score (GAS) models have similar predictive accuracy to correctly specified parameter-driven models. In most cases, differences in mean squared errors are smaller than 1% and model confidence sets have low power when comparing these two alternatives. We also find that GAS models outperform many familiar observation-driven models in terms of forecasting accuracy. The results point to a class of observation-driven models with comparable forecasting ability to parameter-driven models, but lower computational complexity.
Subjects: 
Generalised autoregressive score model
Importance sampling
Model confidence set
Nonlinear state space model
Weibull-gamma mixture
JEL: 
C53
C58
C22
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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