Macroeconomic Forecasting (MFA)
Invitation
Session No.: OT 24.302
Location: Suva, Republic of Fiji
Date: June 3-14, 2024 (2 weeks)
Delivery Method: In-person Training
Primary Language: English
Target Audience
Mid- to senior-level officials involved in developing forecasts that are used in the design and implementation of macroeconomic policy.
Qualifications
Participants should have an advanced degree in economics or equivalent experience. They should also be comfortable using software for econometric applications such as E-Views.
Course Description
This two-week course, presented by the IMF's Institute for Capacity Development, aims to strengthen participants' macroeconomic forecasting and modeling skills through the application of modern econometric techniques. Lectures are designed to include a discussion of underlying theory, live presentations of empirical analyses on a personal computer, and hands-on learning by participants in a computer lab. The course focuses on five aspects of empirical model building and forecasting:
- data and model properties, including stationarity, non-stationarity and cointegration;
- dynamic specification, including the use of error correction models;
- model evaluation and model design;
- forecast uncertainty, forecasting for policy, and policy analysis; and
- combination forecasts.
Participants apply the techniques to a case study country for which they estimate a model, evaluate it, and then use the model for forecasting.
Course Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:
- Identify the foundations, characteristics, and limitations for several econometric model specifications.
- Use EViews software to apply modeling techniques that enhance their institutions' policy analysis and forecasting capabilities.
- Apply the techniques learned to country cases from their region to forecast and analyze a policy issue.
- Apply appropriate tools available in the EViews econometric package to their work or research and that of other countries.
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