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CBN Journal of Applied Statistics (JAS)

Keywords

Inflation forecasting, liquidity forecasting, forecast combination

Abstract

This study shows how the application of forecast combination improves the accuracy of forecasts of economic variables. Using data from January 2009 to December 2014 on the Nigerian inflation rate, and forecasts of currency in circulation (see Ikoku, (2014)) as examples, we find that by combining forecasts of both variables using the regressionbased method, the mean absolute percent errors of the combined forecasts were lower than the forecast errors from the individual models of the variables.

Publication Title

CBN Journal of Applied Statistics

Issue

1

Volume

8

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