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Forecasting Performances of the Reduced Form VAR and Sims-Zha Bayesian VAR Models when the Multiple Time Series are Jointly Influenced by Collinearity and Autocorrelated Error
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: Received: 17 November 2018 / Approved: 20 November 2018 / Online: 20 November 2018 (09:03:49 CET)
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Adenomon, M. O.; Oyejola, B. A. Forecasting Performances of the Reduced Form VAR and Sims-Zha Bayesian VAR Models when the Multiple Time Series are Jointly Influenced by Collinearity and Autocorrelated Error. Preprints2018, 2018110490. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201811.0490.v1
Adenomon, M. O.; Oyejola, B. A. Forecasting Performances of the Reduced Form VAR and Sims-Zha Bayesian VAR Models when the Multiple Time Series are Jointly Influenced by Collinearity and Autocorrelated Error. Preprints 2018, 2018110490. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201811.0490.v1
Adenomon, M. O.; Oyejola, B. A. Forecasting Performances of the Reduced Form VAR and Sims-Zha Bayesian VAR Models when the Multiple Time Series are Jointly Influenced by Collinearity and Autocorrelated Error. Preprints2018, 2018110490. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201811.0490.v1
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Adenomon, M. O., & Oyejola, B. A. (2018). Forecasting Performances of the Reduced Form VAR and Sims-Zha Bayesian VAR Models when the Multiple Time Series are Jointly Influenced by Collinearity and Autocorrelated Error. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201811.0490.v1
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Adenomon, M. O. and Benjamin Agboola Oyejola. 2018 "Forecasting Performances of the Reduced Form VAR and Sims-Zha Bayesian VAR Models when the Multiple Time Series are Jointly Influenced by Collinearity and Autocorrelated Error" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201811.0490.v1
Abstract
The goal of VAR or BVAR is the characterization of the dynamics and endogenous relationships among time series. Also the VAR models are known for their applications to forecasting and policy analysis. This paper compare the performance of VAR and Sims-Zha Bayesian VAR models when the multiple time series are jointly influenced by different levels of collinearity and autocorrelation in the short term (T=16, 32, 64 and 128). Five levels (-0.9,-0.5, 0,+0.5,+0.9) of collinearity and autocorrelation were considered and the results from the simulation study revealed that VAR(2) model dominated for no and moderate levels of autocorrelation (-0.5, 0, +0.5) irrespective of the collinearity level except in few cases when T=16. While the BVAR models dominated for high autocorrelation levels (-0.9 and +0.9) irrespective of the collinearity level except in few cases when T=128. The performance of the models varies at different levels of the collinearity and autocorrelated error, and also varies with the short term periods. Furthermore, the values of the RMSE and MAE criteria decrease as a result of increase in the time series length. In conclusion, the performance of the forecasting models depend on the time series data structure and the time series length. It is therefore recommended that the data structure and series length should be considered in using an appropriate model for forecasting.
Keywords
forecasting; time series; vector autoregression (VAR), bayesian VAR; collinearity and autocorrelation
Subject
Computer Science and Mathematics, Probability and Statistics
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