...Predicting Initial Claims Using ARIMA models I. Introduction Initial claims is a measure of the number of jobless claims filed by individuals seeking to receive state jobless benefits. This number is watched closely by financial analysts because it provides insight into the direction of the economy. Higher initial claims correlate with a weakening economy. According to Investopedia.com, the strength of a nation's economy will have an impact on the appreciation or depreciation of its currency against other major currencies. Therefore, forex traders typically look at the initial claims figure as part of their analyses when assessing a currency's prospects for the immediate future. Generally speaking, week-by-week numbers are too volatile to get an accurate picture of economic changes, so four-week moving averages are typically used for the initial claims metric. Initial jobless claims measure the number of filings for state jobless benefits. This report provides a timely, but often misleading, indicator of the direction of the economy, with increases (decreases) in claims potential signaling slowing (accelerating) job growth. On a week-to-week basis, claims are quite volatile, and many analysts therefore track a four week moving average to get a better sense of the underlying trend. It typically takes a sustained move of at least 30K in claims to signal a meaningful change in job growth. Goal: The goal of this project is to model seasonally adjusted initial claims...
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...A Seasonal ARIMA Model With Exogenous Variables (SARIMAX) for Elspot Electricity Prices in Sweden Mengchen Xie University of Southern California Department of Mathematics 1230 1/2 W27TH Street, 90007 Los Angeles, USA mengchenxie@gmail.com Abstract—In a spot market, price prediction plays an indispensable role in maximizing the benefit of a producer as well as optimizing the utility of a consumer. This paper develops a seasonal ARIMA model with exogenous variables (SARIMAX) to predict day-ahead electricity prices in Elspot market, the largest day-ahead market for power trading in the world. Compared with the basic ARIMA model, SARIMAX has two distinct features: 1) A seasonal component is introduced to cope with weekly effect on price fluctuations. 2) Exogenous variables that exert influence on electricity prices are incorporated to make price predictions in the context of an integrated energy market. A detailed implementation of SARIMAX for Elspot market in Sweden is presented. Index Terms-- Seasonal ARIMA model, exogenous variables, electricity market, price prediction, time series Claes Sandels, Kun Zhu, Lars Nordström Royal Institute of Technology Department of Industrial Information and Control System Osquldasväg 12, 7 tr., 100 44 Stockholm,Sweden In the Elspot market, time series models have been widely applied to make predictions on future prices. Its effectiveness has been validated by case studies in Nord Pool Spot market [2] and some of its bidding areas [3]...
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...A Study on S&P 500 Index Stock Return and Volatility using ARIMA and GARCH Modeling Kaiyuan Song, Di Wu Summary In this project we first checked consistency and seasonality of S&P500 index stock performance by splitting its recent twenty years historical data into ten two year data and built ARIMA and GARCH models for each sub-period. We found that the models are considerably consistent before 2007-2008 sub-period, and there exists some minor seasonality in several subperiods, but no particular pattern can be identified for the whole period. We then tried to predict future return, volatility and VaR using the model we built for the last sub-period based on rolling forecast procedure. Though the fitted values of 10th sub-period model are very acceptable, the predicted values are reasonable yet far from satisfactory. Only some future volatility can be predicted using one-step ahead rolling forecast, and return prediction is not much better than just using historical mean, which is almost 0, to predict. These results suggest that external variables are needed for more accurate predictions, time series models alone are not sufficient. Data S&P500 index daily closing price from 1993 to 2012 are obtained from yahoo finance website. It is one of the best measures of current state of U.S. domestic economy, therefore by studying its fluctuations, consistency, seasonality and make predictions, one can determine if it is a good time to invest in U.S. stock market. Methodology We...
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...Business Forecasting Coursework Introduction The data of this coursework are business investment in the quarterly series in the manufacturing sector from 1994 to the second quarter of 2008 in UK. In the coursework, firstly analyze the former 50 data to forecast the latter 8 ones and then compare with the real data to see if the forecasting model is a good fit or not. As adopting two different approaches to make the forecasting work, including regression with Dummy Variables method and Box-Jenkins ARIMA method, according to the results, relative comparisons will be made to demonstrate which one is a better choice for this certain question. Then discuss the underlying assumptions of the chosen model and evaluate whether it is sensitive to these assumptions. All the analyses are based on the SPSS software and the graphs are from the output. Part 1. Examine the data To apply certain model to forecast future value, find out the seasonal component, trends and cycles component is the basic job. There are two approaches to examine the data: see the time series plot (chart 1) or use ACF (chart 2). Chart 1 Plot of the data [pic] Chart 2 ACF/PACF of the data [pic][pic] [pic][pic] From both Chart 1 and Chart 2, the drawing conclusion is that the data has trend-cycle and seasonal components. Firstly, although there is no general upward trend and downward trend, clearly there is a cycle component: the data value climbs up in the first 20 data and then displays a down trend following...
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...APPLICATION OF ARIMA MODEL FOR TESTING “SERIAL INDEPENDENCE” OF STOCK PRICES AT THE HSEC Cao Hao Thi – Pham Phu – Pham Ngoc Thuy School of Industrial Management HoChiMinh City University of Technology ABSTRACT The paper is an attempt to test the “serial independence” of stock prices at HoChiMinh City Stock Exchange Center (HSEC) in Vietnam by applying the ARIMA model for preliminary assessment in terms of its market efficiency. From findings derived, it appears to be that: (a) ARIMA model could be applied for testing the serial independence of stock prices at the HSEC; (b) It is failed to prove that the HSEC market is not a weak-form efficient one; and (c) the “sheep flock effect” psychology is a factor dominated at the HSEC during the past two years. INTRODUCTION The first stock exchange floor of Vietnam named “HoChiMinh City Stock Exchange Center” (HSEC) was officially opened in HCM City on July 20, 2000. After two and half years of operation, there are now 21 listed stocks and 41 bonds traded on the HSEC with a total capitalization of about VND 5,200 billion. This would be seen as a first success on the way of setting-up SEC in Vietnam. VN-Index of the HSEC, however, has experienced a truly ups and downs movement and changed considerable during almost last two years. In the first section on July 28, 2000, VN-Index was 100 points and increased to a peak of 571.04 points in June 25, 2001 before sliding to lower 150 points in the first...
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...research CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF INDUSTRIAL TRAINING All final year students of Bachelor of Sciences (Hons) (Statistics), Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) are required to undergo the industrial training. The students will be placed in the government or private organizations of their choice for a period of three months, during which they are also required to design a research project. The following one month will be allocated for data analysis, report writing and oral presentation. This training is very beneficial and important to expose students to the various aspects of industrial practices and ethics. The students are also able to apply the theories and knowledge that they have learned to the projects assigned to them. 1.2 OBJECTIVES OF INDUSTRIAL TRAINING The objectives of the industrial training are: ❖ To expose students to the real working environment ❖ To train students being familiar with the organization structure, operations, and administration. ❖ To acquire real experience in solving research problems and apply appropriate statistical data analysis. ❖ To enable students to integrate the theory learned at UiTM with practice. ❖ To cultivate cooperative networking between industries and UiTM 1.3 INDUSTRIAL TRAINING ATTACHMENT I had undergone my industrial training at Socio Economic and Environmental...
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...QMT 3001 BUSINESS FORECASTING TERM PROJECT Sales Revenue Forecasting of Tat Company 20.05.2014 DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY 2009432015 – MERT ALİ BOZKURT 2009432021 – BURAK CANBAY 1. INTRODUCTION Firstly, we analyzed the quarterly financial reports of Tat Company that shows us sales revenue of quarterly from 2008 to the first quarter of 2014. And then we created our data tables by using annual reports. Our aim is to forecast last three quarters of 2014 based on the sales revenues of the past years. There are many types of variables that affect the sales of companies like demand, cost, economic and political conditions etc. however we handled macro factors in the economy as inflation rates and gross domestic products. Most of big companies determine their sales revenue forecast for planning the budgeting using various forecasting models. Companies that do not implement these forecasting models may have some problems about the financial situation in the future. When we focus on the food sector in Turkey, we see that Turkey has started to be an effective player in the world food and beverage market every passing day. At the same time Turkey is ranked at 7th biggest agriculture country with the 62 billion dollars of agricultural revenue. Consumers have become more conscious about well-balanced and healthy nutrition. Along with this developments and changes leads to improvement of the food and beverage industry. Food and Drink Industry Associations of Turkey determine...
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...SP500~BUFFET Indicator One factor model > summary(fit1) Call: lm(formula = spreturn ~ usratio) Residuals: Min 1Q Median 3Q Max -0.13343 -0.01206 0.00430 0.01842 0.06994 Coefficients: Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|) (Intercept) 0.006738 0.002406 2.800 usratio 0.347598 0.051016 6.814 0.00568 ** 1.48e-10 *** --Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1 Residual standard error: 0.03197 on 175 degrees of freedom Multiple R-squared: 0.2097, Adjusted R-squared: 0.2051 F-statistic: 46.42 on 1 and 175 DF, p-value: 1.475e-10 ACF of residuals One factor model after fitting residuals auto.arima(residuals(fit1),ic="bic") Series: residuals(fit1) ARIMA(0,0,1) with zero mean Arima(x=spreturn,order=c(0,0,1),xreg=cbind(usratio,ur, cpi,gold)) Non-linearity Residuals~Market Cap/GDP Regression 4 Factor model SP500~UsRatio+unemployment +CPI+Gold > summary(fit2) Four-factor model Call: lm(formula = spreturn ~ usratio + ur + cpi + gold) Residuals: Min 1Q Median 3Q Max -0.136851 -0.015117 0.004796 0.019766 0.071003 Coefficients: Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|) (Intercept) 2.698e-03...
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...EXCHANGE RATE VOLATILITY AND RWANDA’S BALANCE OF TRADE By: MANIRAGABA, Ngabo Vallence vallencengabo@ines.ac.rw &: NKURUNZIZA, Fabrice nkurufabre123@ines.ac.rw ABSTRACT This paper examines the effect of exchange rate volatility and balance of trade sector in Rwanda for the period of January 1996 to December 2013, and tries to find appropriate models for both balance of trade and exchange rate to be used in forecasting for future values.. Some of the developing economies including Rwanda would appear to have exacerbated fluctuations in exchange rates, developing economies are special examples of high exchange rate, The impact of exchange rate levels on trade has been much debated but the large body of existing empirical literature does not suggest an indubitable comprehensive image of the trade impacts of exchange rate volatility in Rwanda. The review of the theoretical literature on this issue indicates that there is no clear-cut relationship between exchange rate volatility and balance of trade. This study examines the effect of exchange rate volatility and balance of trade sector in Rwanda The analysis followed the empirical methods (econometrics and time series analysis). The researchers used UBJ time series analysis to accomplish all stages (stationarity, identification, estimation, diagnostic checking and forecasting) of the models and models validation was of good quality and can be used in forecasting for future values. Polynomial regression model helped to establish...
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...Int J Adv Manuf Technol (2006) 27: 604–609 DOI 10.1007/s00170-004-2214-4 ORIGINAL ARTICLE J.M. Hsiao · C.J. Shieh Evaluating the value of information sharing in a supply chain using an ARIMA model Received: 10 October 2003 / Accepted: 20 April 2004 / Published online: 9 February 2005 © Springer-Verlag London Limited 2005 Abstract This paper considers a two-echelon supply chain, which contains one supplier and one retailer. It studies the quantification of the bullwhip effect and the value of informationsharing between the supplier and the retailer under an autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) demand of (0, 1, q). The results show that with an increasing value of q, bullwhip effects will be more obvious, no matter whether there is information sharing or not. When there exists information sharing, the value of the bullwhip effect is greater than it is without information sharing. With an increasing value of q, the gap between the values of the bullwhip effect in the two cases will be larger. Keywords ARIMA · Bullwhip effect · Information sharing · Supply chain dard deviation of order amount is bigger than that of sales, i.e. demand deviation. This kind of distortion winds upward in the form of an increasing square of the standard deviation [9]. The bullwhip effect has drawn much attention in recent years [1, 3, 4, 6, 8–10]. This effect conceals a serious problem of cost. For instance, due to an inefficient estimation of demand, various problems may occur, such...
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...Forecasting Gold Price, using linear regression model and ARIMA DIANE MAHAMEDOU Department of Economics, Business and Finance, Brooklyn College, 2900 Bedford Avenue Brooklyn, N.Y. 11210, USA Instructor:Prof. Yusheng Peng Abstract: Forecasting is a function in management to assist decision making. Forecasting arises when you need to estimate future unknown situations, such price of commodities, GDP, unemployment rate etc, for the coming period. We can’t accurately predict without referring time series estimation. Gold is a precious yellow commodity once used as money. Illegal couple years ago, now once again is accepted as a potential currency, because of the falling of dollar against the Euro and also the rising of uncertainty in our geopolitical environment. Objective of this study is to develop a forecasting model for predicting gold prices based on two currency price movements and the oil price movements. Following the melt-down of US dollars, investors are putting their money into gold because gold plays an important role as a stabilizing influence for investment portfolios. With the increasing demand of the Gold around the world, we have fund necessary to develop a linear regression model that reflects the structure and pattern of gold market and forecast movement of gold price. The most appropriate approach to the understanding of gold prices is the multiple linear regression (MLR) models. MLR is a study on the relationship between a single dependent variable and one...
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...A Time Series Forecasting Analysis on the Monthly Stocks of Rice in the Philippines A Research Paper Presented To Dr. Cesar Rufino Of the Department of Economics School of Economics De La Salle University, Manila In Partial Fulfillment of the Course Requirements in Economic Forecasting (ECOFORE) Term 3 AY 2014-2015 Submitted by: Jayme, Kevin Matthew D. April 24 2015 0 I. Introduction The Philippines has been the accredited as an agricultural nation that provides different types of agricultural related goods, both for the domestic and international market. Rice has been the staple food in the Philippine to 80% of the population as it is customary diet that has been in beaded in the Philippine culture (Drilon Jr., 2012). Despite the strong history of agriculture and the skills and weather condition perfect for growth of rice, decrease of land and increase of total population around the Philippines decrease the opportunity for the population to have access to rice. In addition, neighboring countries, such as Thailand and Vietnam, had been on the rise of rice exportation. Not to mention the implementation of the ASEAN integration is happening in 2015. This means that the Philippines is lagging behind as it is the 8th largest exporters of rice in the world (Tiongco & Francisco, 2011). Institution, such as International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), has gone into research and development of rice growth in different conditions and situation...
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...Housing research in different countries also yields contradictory results regarding housing’s inflation hedge capabilities. Mixed and varied empirical results have been demonstrated in Switzerland (Hamelink and Hosli, 1996), Canada (Newell, 1995), Hong Kong (Ganesan and Chiang, 1998), Singapore (Sing and Low, 2000) and China (Chu and Sing, 2004). Chen and Sing (2006) examined the inflation-hedging ability of five international housing markets (namely Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore, Taipei and London). Their results show that the inflation-hedging features of housing vary significantly across different markets. This finding also highlights the importance of international evidence on the inflation-hedging effectiveness of housing. In Malaysia, the inflation-hedging effectiveness of residential property has been largely ignored, although there are some studies in housing portfolio management (Hui, 2010; Lee and Ting, 2011). In addition, no study has been undertaken to compare the inflation-hedging attributes of different types of residential property. Given the unique features of the Malaysian housing market, a dedicated study in this market is critical. Inflation-hedging characteristics 65 4. Data and methodology Data To assess the inflation-hedging features of Malaysian residential property, the quarterly Malaysian housing indices from the Valuation and Property Services Department, Malaysia over 1999:Q1-2012:Q1 were obtained. The Malaysian All House Price Index was...
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...the decision maker strictly adheres to a given inventory policy, our model allows him to deviate, accounting for private information held by the decision maker, yet unobservable to the econometrician. This turns out to reconcile our empirical findings with the literature. These “decision deviations” lead to information losses in the order process, resulting in strictly positive value of downstream information sharing. We prove that this result holds for any forecast lead time and for more general policies. We also systematically map the product characteristics to the value of information sharing. Key words : supply chain, information sharing, information distortion, decision deviation, time series, forecast accuracy, empirical forecasting, ARIMA process. 1....
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...BUSINESS FORECASTING (14BSP043) Summer 2015 2 hours Answer ALL questions. Candidates may bring into the examination and use ONE file of any paper material. Candidates may use any approved calculator. 1. The worksheet on Page 5 shows the quarterly sales figures (in £,000) of a specialist diving equipment shop for a period of three calendar years (from quarter 1 of the first year to quarter 4 of the third year). (a) A time-series plot of the data is shown below. With reference to the graph, justify the chosen method for the analysis that has been started on the worksheet. (4 marks) (b) By assuming a multiplicative model, complete the analysis on the worksheet. Explain what can be learnt from the figures in each column including those already completed. Apply the trend model, Trend line = 1126.3 −4.6*time, where time is the number of the sales periods starting at 1, and generate a forecast for each period including the next four periods. (20 marks) (c) Explain in which way that the ‘trendcycle’ column on the worksheet on page 5 is used in the modelling. In addition, apart from forecasting, briefly discuss why ‘trendcycle’ data is also useful in general business analysis. (6 marks) Question 1 continued/… Page 1 of 5 …/Question 1 continued (d) Plot the errors calculated in part (b). Hence comment on how good this forecasting method is in this particular case. How confident are you in your forecasts for the following year? (10...
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