Forecasting Strongly Dependent Macroeconomic and Monetary Series: A Two-Stage Approach and a Direct High-Order Autoregression

quantf research Working Paper Series: WP12/2014

50 Pages Posted: 2 Jun 2014

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Fotis Papailias

King’s College London - King's Business School; Knot Analytics Ltd

Gustavo Fruet Dias

University of East Anglia (UEA) - School of Economics; CREATES

Date Written: June 1, 2014

Abstract

A two step forecasting approach for long memory time series is introduced. In the first step we estimate the fractional exponent and, applying the fractional differencing operator, we obtain the underlying weakly dependent series. In the second step, we perform the multi-step ahead forecasts for the weakly dependent series and obtain their long memory counterparts by applying the fractional cumulation operator. The methodology applies to stationary and nonstationary cases. Applications to sixteen macroeconomic and monetary series indicate that the new methodology provides better forecasts. Furthermore, a high-order AR model fitted to the original data also yields to comparable results.

Keywords: Forecasting, Infinite Autoregressions, Long Memory, MLE, Local Whittle

Suggested Citation

Papailias, Fotis and Fruet Dias, Gustavo, Forecasting Strongly Dependent Macroeconomic and Monetary Series: A Two-Stage Approach and a Direct High-Order Autoregression (June 1, 2014). quantf research Working Paper Series: WP12/2014, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2444417 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2444417

Fotis Papailias (Contact Author)

King’s College London - King's Business School ( email )

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Knot Analytics Ltd ( email )

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Gustavo Fruet Dias

University of East Anglia (UEA) - School of Economics ( email )

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University of East Anglia
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United Kingdom

CREATES

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