Forecasting macroeconomic variables in data-rich environments

Marcelo C. Medeiros; Gabriel F.R. Vasconcelos

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2015.11.017

Forecasting macroeconomic variables in data-rich environments

Marcelo C. Medeiros
, Gabriel F.R. Vasconcelos

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Abstract

We show that high-dimensional models produce, on average, smaller forecasting errors for macroeconomic variables when we consider a large set of predictors. Our results showed that a good selection of the adaptive LASSO hyperparameters also reduces forecast errors.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	50-52
Number of pages	3
Journal	Economics Letters
Volume	138
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2015.11.017
State	Published - Jan 1 2016
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Big data
Forecasting
LASSO
Model selection
Shrinkage

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Finance
Economics and Econometrics

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