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G3MOD: A Multi-Country Global Forecasting Model

By Iaroslav Miller, Daniel Baksa, Philippe D Karam, Tugrul Vehbi

December 13, 2024

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Iaroslav Miller, Daniel Baksa, Philippe D Karam, and Tugrul Vehbi. "G3MOD: A Multi-Country Global Forecasting Model", IMF Working Papers 2024, 254 (2024), accessed February 13, 2025, https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400295966.001

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This paper develops G3MOD, a semi-structural gap-trend model designed for frequent external sector forecasts crucial in macroeconomic forecasting. Focused on the G3 economies (US, Euro Area, and China) and the rest of the world, G3MOD leverages insights from central banks’ policy models, to consistently translate external forecasts such as the IMF’s World Economic Outlook into a Quarterly Projection Model format. The model offers flexible simulations and policy assessments and is structured around trade and financial linkages. G3MOD supports model-based forecasts and risk evaluations, helping central banks integrate external forecasts and scenarios into their own forecasts, thus generating timely macroeconomic projections. Its calibration ensures alignment with historical data, economic coherence, and robust predictive capability, and it has been validated against major global projection models. The complete set of codes, calibrated parameter values, and supporting programs are posted with this working paper.

Subject: Commodity prices, Foreign exchange, Inflation, Nominal effective exchange rate, Output gap, Prices, Production, Real exchange rates

Keywords: Commodity prices, Demand shock, Forecasting accuracy, Forecasting and Policy Analysis, Global, Inflation, Macroeconomic forecasting, Macroeconomic Modeling, Monetary Policy, Nominal effective exchange rate, Output gap, Quarterly Projection Model, Real exchange rates, Risk evaluation

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