期刊
COMPUTATIONAL ECONOMICS
卷 47, 期 4, 页码 569-587出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10614-014-9479-y
关键词
Forecast combinations; Kalman filter; Support vector regression; Unemployment
This study investigates the efficiency of the radial basis function neural networks in forecasting the US unemployment and explores the utility of Kalman filter and support vector regression as forecast combination techniques. On one hand, an autoregressive moving average model, a smooth transition autoregressive model and three different neural networks architectures, namely a multi-layer perceptron, recurrent neural network and a psi sigma network are used as benchmarks for our radial basis function neural network. On the other hand, our forecast combination methods are benchmarked with a simple average and a least absolute shrinkage and selection operator. The statistical performance of our models is estimated throughout the period of 1972-2012, using the last 7 years for out-of-sample testing. The results show that the radial basis function neural network statistically outperforms all models' individual performances. The forecast combinations are successful, since both Kalman filter and support vector regression techniques improve the statistical accuracy. Finally, support vector regression is found to be the superior model of the forecasting competition. The empirical evidence of this application are further validated by the use of the modified Diebold-Mariano test.
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