How External Factors Affect Domestic Economy: Nowcasting an Emerging Market

December 23, 2015

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Serhat Solmaz, and Marzie Taheri Sanjani. How External Factors Affect Domestic Economy: Nowcasting an Emerging Market, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2015) accessed November 23, 2024

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Summary

External headwinds, together with domestic vulnerabilities, have loomed over the prospects of emerging markets in recent years. We propose an empirical toolbox to quantify the impact of external macro-financial shocks on domestic economies in parsimonious way. Our model is a Bayesian VAR consisting of two blocks representing home and foreign factors, which is particularly useful for small open economies. By exploiting the mixed-frequency nature of the model, we show how the toolbox can be used for “nowcasting” the output growth. The conditional forecast results illustrate that regular updates of external information, as well as domestic leading indicators, would significantly enhance the accuracy of forecasts. Moreover, the analysis of variance decompositions shows that external shocks are important drivers of the domestic business cycle.

Subject: Business cycles, Cyclical indicators, Economic forecasting, Economic growth, Industrial production, Oil prices, Production, Production growth

Keywords: Aggregated external shocks, Bayesian estimation, Business cycles, Counterfactual economy, Cyclical indicators, Economy block, Economy interest rates, Emerging Market, GDP dynamic, Global, Home economy, Industrial production, Nowcasting, Open economy, Production growth, Simulated economy, VAR, WP

Publication Details

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23
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Working Paper No. 2015/269
Stock No:

WPIEA2015269
ISBN:

9781513598987
ISSN:

1018-5941

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