Technical Appendix to 'The Contribution of Structural Break Models to Forecasting Macroeconomic Series'

42 Pages Posted: 21 Aug 2011 Last revised: 10 May 2017

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Luc Bauwens

Université catholique de Louvain

Gary Koop

University of Strathclyde, Glasgow - Strathclyde Business School - Department of Economics

Dimitris Korobilis

University of Glasgow - Adam Smith Business School

J. V. K. Rombouts

HEC Montreal; Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE); Centre interuniversitaire sur le risque, les politiques économiques et l'emploi (CIRPÉE); Center for Interuniversity Research and Analysis on Organization (CIRANO)

Date Written: December 10, 2013

Abstract

The first three appendices contain details about the implementation of the estimation and forecasting of the structural break models named PPT and KP in the paper. These models are explained in Section 2 of the paper and information about the forecasting implementation of these models is presented in Section 4 of the paper. The fourth appendix contains tables that show detailed results that are summarized and discussed in Section 5 of the paper.

Keywords: Forecasting, Structural Breaks, Change Points, Markov Switching, Bayesian Inference

JEL Classification: C11, C22, C53

Suggested Citation

Bauwens, Luc and Koop, Gary and Korobilis, Dimitris and Rombouts, Jeroen, Technical Appendix to 'The Contribution of Structural Break Models to Forecasting Macroeconomic Series' (December 10, 2013). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1913412 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1913412

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