Bayesian forecasting in economics and finance: A modern review

GM Martin, DT Frazier, W Maneesoonthorn… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
The Bayesian statistical paradigm provides a principled and coherent approach to
probabilistic forecasting. Uncertainty about all unknowns that characterize any forecasting …

Inducing sparsity and shrinkage in time-varying parameter models

F Huber, G Koop, L Onorante - Journal of Business & Economic …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Time-varying parameter (TVP) models have the potential to be over-parameterized,
particularly when the number of variables in the model is large. Global-local priors are …

Macroeconomic forecasting with large Bayesian VARs: Global-local priors and the illusion of sparsity

JL Cross, C Hou, A Poon - International Journal of Forecasting, 2020 - Elsevier
A class of global-local hierarchical shrinkage priors for estimating large Bayesian vector
autoregressions (BVARs) has recently been proposed. We question whether three such …

[HTML][HTML] Sparse Bayesian time-varying covariance estimation in many dimensions

G Kastner - Journal of Econometrics, 2019 - Elsevier
We address the curse of dimensionality in dynamic covariance estimation by modeling the
underlying co-volatility dynamics of a time series vector through latent time-varying …

Sparse Bayesian vector autoregressions in huge dimensions

G Kastner, F Huber - Journal of Forecasting, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We develop a Bayesian vector autoregressive (VAR) model with multivariate stochastic
volatility that is capable of handling vast dimensional information sets. Three features are …

Tail forecasting with multivariate Bayesian additive regression trees

TE Clark, F Huber, G Koop… - International …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We develop multivariate time‐series models using Bayesian additive regression trees that
posit nonlinearities among macroeconomic variables, their lags, and possibly their lagged …

Global inflation dynamics and inflation expectations

M Feldkircher, PL Siklos - International Review of Economics & Finance, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper we investigate dynamics of inflation and short-run inflation expectations. We
estimate a global vector autoregressive (GVAR) model using Bayesian techniques. We then …

Bayesian nonparametric sparse VAR models

M Billio, R Casarin, L Rossini - Journal of Econometrics, 2019 - Elsevier
High dimensional vector autoregressive (VAR) models require a large number of
parameters to be estimated and may suffer of inferential problems. We propose a new …

BVAR: Bayesian vector autoregressions with hierarchical prior selection in R

N Kuschnig, L Vashold - Journal of Statistical Software, 2021 - jstatsoft.org
Vector autoregression (VAR) models are widely used for multivariate time series analysis in
macroeconomics, finance, and related fields. Bayesian methods are often employed to deal …

Comparing stochastic volatility specifications for large Bayesian VARs

JCC Chan - Journal of Econometrics, 2023 - Elsevier
Large Bayesian vector autoregressions with various forms of stochastic volatility have
become increasingly popular in empirical macroeconomics. One main difficulty for …