Analyzing Permanent and Transient Influences in Multiple Time Series Models

Abstract

Several multiple time series models are developed and applied to the analysis and forecasting of the M1 and M2 money supply aggregates. These models feature a decomposition of the time series into permanent and transient influences or components. This decomposition appears to enhance forecasting accuracy and is associated with a variance-covariance allocation parameter that is also estimated from the data. Conditional maximum likelihood estimates for model parameters are presented as well as a numerical algorithm that is an adaptation of Marquardt's algorithm.