Forecasting Inflation in Chile Using State-Space and Regime-Switching Models
October 1, 2000
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Summary
The paper estimates two time-varying parameter models of Chilean inflation: a Phillips curve model and a small open economy model. Their out-of-sample forecasts are compared with those of simple Box-Jenkins models. The main findings are; forecasts that include the pre-announced inflation target as a regressor are relatively better; the Phillips curve model outperforms the small open economy model in out-of-sample forecasts; and although Box-Jenkins models outperform the two models for short-term out-of-sample forecasts, their superiority deteriorates in longer forecasts. Adding a Markov-switching process to the models does not explain much of the conditional variance of the forecast errors.
Subject: Economic forecasting, Inflation, Inflation targeting, Monetary policy, Monetary policy frameworks, Output gap, Prices, Production
Keywords: Inflation, inflation forecasting, inflation target, Inflation targeting, Markov-switching, model of inflation, Monetary policy frameworks, open economy, open economy model, Output gap, Phillips curve, Phillips curve model, state-space models, time series, WP
Pages:
54
Volume:
2000
DOI:
Issue:
162
Series:
Working Paper No. 2000/162
Stock No:
WPIEA1622000
ISBN:
9781451857863
ISSN:
1018-5941
