Bayesian model averaging: an application to forecast inflation in Colombia

Número: 
604
Publicado: 
Clasificación JEL: 
C11, C15, C52, C53
Palabras clave: 
Bayesian model averaging, forecast combination, Inflation, Information theoretical model averaging.

An application of Bayesian Model Averaging, BMA, is implemented to construct combined forecasts for the colombian inflation for the short and medium run. A model selection algorithm is applied over a set of linear models with a large dataset of potencial