A Time-Varying Bayesian Compressed Vector Autoregression for Macroeconomic Forecasting

A Time-Varying Parameter Vector Autoregression Model for Forecasting Emerging Market Exchange Rates

In this study, a vector autoregression (VAR) model with time-varying parameters (TVP) to predict the daily Indian rupee (INR)/US dollar (USD) exchange rates for the Indian economy is developed. The method is based on characterization of the TVP as an optimal control problem. The methodology is a blend of the flexible least squares and Kalman filter techniques. The out-of-sample forecasting perf...

Forecasting State Tax Revenue: A Bayesian Vector Autoregression Approach By

This paper compares alternative time-series models to forecast state tax revenues. Forecast accuracy is compared to a benchmark random walk forecast. Quarterly data for California is used to forecast total tax revenue along with its three largest components, sales, income, and corporate tax revenue. For oneand four-quarter-ahead forecasts from 2004 to 2009, Bayesian vector autoregressions gener...

A Bayesian Poisson Vector Autoregression Model

Multivariate count models are rare in political science, despite the presence of many count time series. This article develops a new Bayesian Poisson vector autoregression (BaP-VAR) model that can characterize endogenous dynamic counts with no restrictions on the contemporaneous correlations. Impulse responses, decomposition of the forecast errors, and dynamic multiplier methods for the effects...

Forecasting with time-varying vector autoregressive models

The purpose of this paper is to propose a time-varying vector autoregressive model (TV-VAR) for forecasting multivariate time series. The model is casted into a state-space form that allows flexible description and analysis. The volatility covariance matrix of the time series is modelled via inverted Wishart and singular multivariate beta distributions allowing a fully conjugate Bayesian infere...

Monitoring Time-Varying Parameters in an Autoregression