Title: Forecasting Goods and Services Inflation in Sweden
Abstract: In this paper, we make use of a Bayesian VAR (BVAR) model to con-duct an out-of-sample forecast exercise for goods and services inflation in Sweden. Our interest in goods and services prices stems from the fact that they make up over 70 per cent of the CPI index and that they are more directly affected by the macroeconomic development than other parts of the CPI. We find that the BVAR models generally outperform both univariate models for goods and services inflation, as well as forecasts made by the National Institute of Economic Research in Sweden. This might indicate that Faust and Wright’s (2013) rather negative conclusion that inflation models cannot beat judgmental forecasts and inflation expectations might be wrong, at least in the case of Sweden.
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Date: 2016-10-12
Language: en
Type: preprint
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