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Title: A genetic programming approach for estimating economic sentiment in the Baltic countries and the European Union
Author: Clavería González, Óscar
Monte Moreno, Enric
Torra Porras, Salvador
Keywords: Algorismes genètics
Indicadors socials
Creixement econòmic
Expectatives racionals (Teoria econòmica)
Països bàltics
Genetic algorithms
Social indicators
Economic growth
Rational expectations (Economic theory)
Baltic States
Issue Date: Jan-2021
Publisher: Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
Abstract: In this study, we introduce a sentiment construction method based on the evolution of survey-based indicators. We make use of genetic algorithms to evolve qualitative expectations in order to generate country-specific empirical economic sentiment indicators in the three Baltic republics and the European Union. First, for each country we search for the non-linear combination of firms' and households' expectations that minimises a fitness function. Second, we compute the frequency with which each survey expectation appears in the evolved indicators and examine the lag structure per variable selected by the algorithm. The industry survey indicator with the highest predictive performance are production expectations, while in the case of the consumer survey the distribution between variables is multi-modal. Third, we evaluate the out-of-sample predictive performance of the generated indicators, obtaining more accurate estimates of year-on-year GDP growth rates than with the scaled industrial and consumer confidence indicators. Finally, we use non-linear constrained optimisation to combine the evolved expectations of firms and consumers and generate aggregate expectations of of year-on-year GDP growth. We find that, in most cases, aggregate expectations outperform recursive autoregressive predictions of economic growth.
Note: Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.3846/tede.2021.13989
It is part of: Technological and Economic Development of Economy, 2021, vol. 27, num. 1, p. 262-279
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2445/173339
Related resource: https://doi.org/10.3846/tede.2021.13989
ISSN: 2029-4913
Appears in Collections:Articles publicats en revistes (Econometria, Estadística i Economia Aplicada)

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