用70个指标实时预测新加坡季度GDP,还解释了哪些因素最关键。
Opening the Black Box: Nowcasting Singapore's GDP Growth and its Explainability
- 构建高维面板数据的实时预测框架,融合多种机器学习模型。
- 惩罚回归、降维模型和GRU网络比基准模型误差降低40%-60%。
- 揭示工业生产、外贸和劳动力市场是短期增长主因,适合政策制定者参考。
及时评估经济现状对小型开放经济体如新加坡至关重要,外部冲击会迅速传导至国内活动。本文构建了一个基于约70项指标的实时预测框架,涵盖1990年第一季度至2023年第二季度的经济与金融指标,分析了惩罚回归、降维方法、集成学习算法及神经网络架构,与随机游走、AR(3)模型和动态因子模型进行对比。采用滚动窗口的前瞻性设计与贝叶斯超参数优化,通过移动块自助法生成预测区间及特征重要性置信带。使用模型特定与XAI可解释性工具,通过模型置信集识别统计上更优的学习器,并以简单、加权及指数加权方式聚合;时变权重提供模型贡献的可解释表示。预测能力通过Giacomini-White检验评估。实证结果显示,惩罚回归、降维模型和GRU网络持续优于所有基准,均方根预测误差降低约40%-60%;聚合进一步提升性能。特征归因方法表明,工业生产、对外贸易和劳动力市场指标是新加坡短期增长动态的主要驱动因素。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Timely assessment of current conditions is essential especially for small, open economies such as Singapore, where external shocks transmit rapidly to domestic activity. We develop a real-time nowcasting framework for quarterly GDP growth using a high-dimensional panel of approximately 70 indicators, encompassing economic and financial indicators over 1990Q1-2023Q2. The analysis covers penalized regressions, dimensionality-reduction methods, ensemble learning algorithms, and neural architectures, benchmarked against a Random Walk, an AR(3), and a Dynamic Factor Model. The pipeline preserves temporal ordering through an expanding-window walk-forward design with Bayesian hyperparameter optimization, and uses moving block-bootstrap procedures both to construct prediction intervals and to obtain confidence bands for feature-importance measures. It adopts model-specific and XAI-based explainability tools. A Model Confidence Set procedure identifies statistically superior learners, which are then combined through simple, weighted, and exponentially weighted schemes; the resulting time-varying weights provide an interpretable representation of model contributions. Predictive ability is assessed via Giacomini-White tests. Empirical results show that penalized regressions, dimensionality-reduction models, and GRU networks consistently outperform all benchmarks, with RMSFE reductions of roughly 40-60%; aggregation delivers further gains. Feature-attribution methods highlight industrial production, external trade, and labor-market indicators as dominant drivers of Singapore's short-run growth dynamics.
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