ARIMA and VAR Modeling to Forecast Malaysian Economic Growth

Authors

  • Nur Azreen Abdul Razak Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia
  • Azme Khamis Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia
  • Mohd Asrul Affendi Abdullah Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia

Keywords:

univariate, multivariate, growth, forecast, ARIMA, VAR, MAPE

Abstract

This study presents a comparative study on univariate time series via Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) model and multivariate time series via Vector Autoregressive (VAR) model in forecasting economic growth in Malaysia. This study used monthly economic indicators price from January 1998 to January 2016 and the economic indicators used to measure the economic growth are Currency in Circulation, Exchange Rate, External Reserve and Reserve Money. The aim is to evaluate a VAR and ARIMA model to forecast economic growth and to suggest the best time series model from existing model for forecasting economic growth in Malaysia. The forecast performances of these models were evaluated based on out-of-sample forecast procedure using an error measurement, Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE). Results revealed that VAR model outperform ARIMA model in predicting the economic growth in term of lowest forecasting accuracy measurement.

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Published

26-12-2017

How to Cite

Abdul Razak, N. A., Khamis, A., & Abdullah, M. A. A. (2017). ARIMA and VAR Modeling to Forecast Malaysian Economic Growth. Journal of Science and Technology, 9(3). https://penerbit.uthm.edu.my/ojs/index.php/JST/article/view/2037