Forecasting annual inflation with power transformations : the case of inflation targeting countries

Borradores de Economia
Número: 
756
Publicado: 
Clasificación JEL: 
C22, C52
Palabras clave: 
ARIMA models, power transformations, seasonality, bayesian analysis

Lo más reciente

Andrea Sofía Otero-Cortés, Karina Acosta, Jhorland Ayala-García, Oriana Álvarez Vos, Sara Rojas
Jorge Florez-Acosta, Margarita María Gáfaro-González, Alejandra González-Ramírez, Juan Sebastián Vélez-Velásquez

This paper investigates whether transforming the Consumer Price Index with a class of power transformations lead to an improvement of inflation forecasting accuracy. We use one of the prototypical models to forecast short run inflation which is known as t