Nowcasting Indonesia

22 Pages Posted: 10 Nov 2015

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Matteo Luciani

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Madhavi Pundit

Asian Development Bank

Arief Ramayandi

Asian Development Bank - Economic Research

Giovanni Veronese

Bank of Italy

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Date Written: 2015-11-09

Abstract

We produce predictions of the current state of the Indonesian economy by estimating a dynamic factor model on a dataset of eleven indicators (also followed closely by market operators) over the time period 2002 to 2014. Besides the standard difficulties associated with constructing timely indicators of current economic conditions, Indonesia presents additional challenges typical to emerging market economies where data are often scant and unreliable. By means of a pseudo-real-time forecasting exercise we show that our model outperforms univariate benchmarks, and it does comparably with predictions of market operators. Finally, we show that when quality of data is low, a careful selection of indicators is crucial for better forecast performance.

Keywords: Dynamic Factor Models, Emerging Market Economies, Nowcasting

Suggested Citation

Luciani, Matteo and Pundit, Madhavi and Ramayandi, Arief and Veronese, Giovanni Furio, Nowcasting Indonesia (2015-11-09). FEDS Working Paper No. 2015-100, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2688457 or http://dx.doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2015.100

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