Forecasting national activity using lots of international predictors : an application to New Zealand /

We look at how large international datasets can improve forecasts of national activity. We use the case of New Zealand, an archetypal small open economy. We apply "data-rich" factor and shrinkage methods to tackle the problem of efficiently handling hundreds of predictor data series from m...

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Main Author: Eickmeier, Sandra
Other Authors: Ng, Tim
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Frankfurt am Main : Deutsche Bundesbank, 2009
Series:Discussion paper (Deutsche Bundesbank). Series 1: economic studies no. 11/2009
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Online Access:https://econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/27665/1/200911dkp.pdf

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505 0 |a 1. Introduction -- 2. Related literature -- 3. Methodology: Forecasting setup -- Data-rich methods -- Shrinkage methods -- Factor methods -- Trade-weighting approaches to summarising international data -- Strength and weaknesses of the various approaches -- 4. Data -- 5. Forecasting results, using New Zealand data only -- 6. The relevance of different classes of international data over the sample -- 7. Conclusions. 
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