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Model averaging for time-varying vector autoregressions

Time:Fri., 16:00-17:00, Nov. 22, 2024

Venue:C654, Shuangqing Complex Building A

Organizer:Yunan Wu

Speaker:Yuying Sun

Statistical Seminar

Organizer:

Yunan Wu 吴宇楠 (YMSC)


Speaker:

Yuying Sun 孙玉莹

中国科学院数学与系统科学研究院副研究员


Time:

Fri., 16:00-17:00, Nov. 22, 2024

Venue:

C654, Shuangqing Complex Building A

Title:

Model averaging for time-varying vector autoregressions


Abstract:

This paper proposes a novel time-varying model averaging (TVMA) approach to enhancing forecast accuracy for multivariate time series subject to structural changes. The TVMA method averages predictions from a set of time-varying vector autoregressive models using optimal time-varying combination weights selected by minimizing a penalized local criterion. This allows the relative importance of different models to adaptively evolve over time in response to structural shifts. We establish an asymptotic optimality for the proposed TVMA approach in achieving the lowest possible quadratic forecast errors. The convergence rate of the selected time-varying weights to the optimal weights minimizing expected quadratic errors is derived. Moreover, we show that when one or more correctly specified models exist, our method consistently assigns full weight to them, and an asymptotic normality for the TVMA estimators under some regular conditions can be established. Furthermore, the proposed approach encompasses special cases including time-varying VAR models with exogenous predictors, as well as time-varying FAVAR models. Simulations and an empirical application illustrate the proposed TVMA method outperforms some commonly used model averaging and selection methods in the presence of structural changes.

DATENovember 21, 2024
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