arXiv:2510.23347econ.EMcs.LG2025-10

用新闻数据建模经济不确定性,提升七国宏观预测精度。

Macroeconomic Forecasting for the G7 countries under Uncertainty Shocks

  • 引入四大新闻源不确定性冲击,改进贝叶斯向量自回归模型。
  • 12与24个月预测表现优于14种基准模型,包括机器学习方法。
  • 提供可信区间,适合政策制定者做情景分析与风险评估。

在地缘政治冲突、政策反转和金融市场波动加剧的背景下,宏观经济预测愈发困难。传统向量自回归(VAR)在高维情形下过拟合,阈值VAR难以应对时变关联与复杂参数结构。本文将Sims-Zha贝叶斯VAR拓展为含外生变量的SZBVARx框架,引入领域知识引导的收缩策略,并纳入四类基于报纸数据的不确定性冲击:经济政策不确定性、地缘政治风险、美国股市波动率及美国货币政策不确定性。该框架增强结构可解释性,缓解维度问题,实现经验驱动的正则化。利用G7国家数据,研究不确定性冲击对失业率、实际广义有效汇率、短期利率、油价及核心通胀五项关键变量的溢出效应,结合小波相干(时频动态)与非线性局部投影(状态依赖脉冲响应)。12个月与24个月的样本外预测结果显示,SZBVARx显著优于14种基准模型,包括经典VAR与主流机器学习模型,经由Murphy差异图、多变量Diebold-Mariano检验及Giacomini-White可预测性检验确认。可信的贝叶斯预测区间为情景分析与风险管理提供稳健的不确定性量化。所提出的SZBVARx为七国政策制定者提供了透明且校准良好的现代宏观预测工具。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Accurate macroeconomic forecasting has become harder amid geopolitical disruptions, policy reversals, and volatile financial markets. Conventional vector autoregressions (VARs) overfit in high dimensional settings, while threshold VARs struggle with time varying interdependencies and complex parameter structures. We address these limitations by extending the Sims Zha Bayesian VAR with exogenous variables (SZBVARx) to incorporate domain-informed shrinkage and four newspaper based uncertainty shocks such as economic policy uncertainty, geopolitical risk, US equity market volatility, and US monetary policy uncertainty. The framework improves structural interpretability, mitigates dimensionality, and imposes empirically guided regularization. Using G7 data, we study spillovers from uncertainty shocks to five core variables (unemployment, real broad effective exchange rates, short term rates, oil prices, and CPI inflation), combining wavelet coherence (time frequency dynamics) with nonlinear local projections (state dependent impulse responses). Out-of-sample results at 12 and 24 month horizons show that SZBVARx outperforms 14 benchmarks, including classical VARs and leading machine learning models, as confirmed by Murphy difference diagrams, multivariate Diebold Mariano tests, and Giacomini White predictability tests. Credible Bayesian prediction intervals deliver robust uncertainty quantification for scenario analysis and risk management. The proposed SZBVARx offers G7 policymakers a transparent, well calibrated tool for modern macroeconomic forecasting under pervasive uncertainty.

宏观经济不确定性贝叶斯模型预测

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