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Title: Markov-switching MIDAS models

Author(s): Pierre Guérin and Massimiliano Marcellino

Publication Date: February 2011

Keyword(s): business cycle, forecasting, mixed-frequency data, non-linear models and nowcasting

Programme Area(s): International Macroeconomics

Abstract: This paper introduces a new regression model - Markov-switching mixed data sampling (MS-MIDAS) - that incorporates regime changes in the parameters of the mixed data sampling (MIDAS) models and allows for the use of mixed-frequency data in Markov-switching models. After a discussion of estimation and inference for MS-MIDAS, and a small sample simulation based evaluation, the MS-MIDAS model is applied to the prediction of the US and UK economic activity, in terms both of quantitative forecasts of the aggregate economic activity and of the prediction of the business cycle regimes. Both simulation and empirical results indicate that MSMIDAS is a very useful specification.

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Guérin, P and Marcellino, M. 2011. 'Markov-switching MIDAS models'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=8234