Macroeconomic forecasting with mixed data sampling frequencies: Evidence from a small open economy

The aim of this study was to forecast the Singapore gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate by employing the mixed‐data sampling (MIDAS) approach using mixed and high‐frequency financial market data from Singapore, and to examine whether the high‐frequency financial variables could better predict t...

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Published in:Journal of forecasting 2018-09, Vol.37 (6), p.666-675
Main Authors: Tsui, Albert K., Xu, Cheng Yang, Zhang, Zhaoyong
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Economic forecasting
Economic models
Financial market
financial variable
forecast evaluation
Forecasting
GDP
Gross Domestic Product
Growth rate
Macroeconomics
mixed frequencies
Sampling
Studies
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Summary:The aim of this study was to forecast the Singapore gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate by employing the mixed‐data sampling (MIDAS) approach using mixed and high‐frequency financial market data from Singapore, and to examine whether the high‐frequency financial variables could better predict the macroeconomic variables. We adopt different time‐aggregating methods to handle the high‐frequency data in order to match the sampling rate of lower‐frequency data in our regression models. Our results showed that MIDAS regression using high‐frequency stock return data produced a better forecast of GDP growth rate than the other models, and the best forecasting performance was achieved by using weekly stock returns. The forecasting result was further improved by performing intra‐period forecasting.
ISSN:0277-6693
1099-131X
DOI:10.1002/for.2528