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Dynamic Panel Data Approach to the Forecasting of the GDP of German Länder

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dc.creator Kholodilin, Konstantin Arkadievich
dc.creator Siliverstovs, Boriss
dc.creator Kooths, Stefan
dc.date 2007
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T06:59:49Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T06:59:49Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18396
dc.identifier ppn:525751017
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18396
dc.description In this paper we forecast the annual growth rates of the real GDP for each of the 16 German Länder (States) simultaneously. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt in the literature that addresses this question for all German Länder as most of the studies try to forecast the German GDP either on the aggregate level or focus on selected Länder only. Our further contribution to the literature is that next to the usual panel data models such as pooled and within models we apply within models that explicitly account for the spatially autocorrelated errors. On the one hand, it allows us to take advantage of the panel dimension, given the short sample for which the data are available, and hence gain efficiency and precision. On the other hand, accounting for the spatial heterogeneity and correlation is important due to the substantial differences existing between the German regions, in particular between East and West Germany. Our main finding is that pooling helps to significantly (up to 25% in terms of the root mean squared forecast errors) increase the forecasting accuracy compared to the individual autoregressive models estimated for each of the Länder separately.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) Berlin
dc.relation DIW-Diskussionspapiere 664
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject C21
dc.subject C53
dc.subject C23
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject German Länder
dc.subject forecasting
dc.subject dynamic panel model
dc.subject spatial autocorrelation
dc.subject Konjunkturprognose
dc.subject Prognoseverfahren
dc.subject Sozialprodukt
dc.subject Panel
dc.subject Teilstaat
dc.subject Räumliche Interaktion
dc.subject Schätzung
dc.subject Deutschland
dc.title Dynamic Panel Data Approach to the Forecasting of the GDP of German Länder
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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