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Forecasting Economic Cycle with a Structural Equation Model: Evidence from Thailand

Jeerawadee Pumjaroen    
Preecha Vichitthamaros    
Yuthana Sethapramote    

Resumen

The study proposes a partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) evaluating the relationship among composite leading indices (CLIs) to forecast the economic cycle (EC) instead of using only individual CLI. The model of quarterly data in Thailand during 2013-2018 includes five constructs representing economic sectors that have the potential to be CLIs of EC. Those are two short-term CLIs including Short-leading economic index (SLEI) and International transmission (Trade channel) (ITT). SLEI composes Narrow money, Business sentiment index (Next 3 months), and Export volume index while ITT constructs from CLI of the major export partners. The Financial cycle (FC) has the potential to be the medium-term CLI, which includes Housing price index, Household debt to GDP, and Household debt. While Monetary condition (MC) and International transmission (Monetary channel) (ITM) are the long-term CLI. MC consists of Policy interest rate and real effective exchange rate whereas ITM is represented by the global economy using CLI for OECD and non-member economies as a proxy. The evidence from the forecasting performance in the out-of-sample by PLS-SEM outperforms the alternative models for all short-term, middle-term, and long-term periods. Therefore, the study convinces to apply the PLS-SEM to forecast EC.Keywords: PLS-SEM, leading indicator, economic cycle, forecastingJEL Classifications: E17, E32, E37DOI: https://doi.org/10.32479/ijefi.9354

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