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Yet more on a stochastic economic model: Part 5: a vector autoregressive (VAR) Model for retail prices and wages

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2018

A. D. Wilkie*
Affiliation:
InQA Limited, Dennington, Ridgeway, Horsell, Woking GU21 4QR, UK
Şule Şahin
Affiliation:
Institute for Financial and Actuarial Mathematics, University of Liverpool, Mathematical Sciences Building, Liverpool L69 7ZL, UK Department of Actuarial Sciences, Hacettepe University, Ankara 06800, Turkey
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*Correspondence to: A. D. Wilkie, InQA Limited, Dennington, Ridgeway, Horsell, Woking GU21 4QR, UK. Tel: +44 1483 725984 or +44 1483 755826. E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

In this paper we develop a vector autoregressive model for retail prices and wages within the Wilkie model. The results turn out to be a slight improvement over the original model, but the simulated results are not very different.

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© Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 2018 

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