st: Out-of sample ARMA forecast error variance for confidence bands

[Michael Bechtel <michael.bechtel@ir.gess.ethz.ch>]

Dear Statalist members

is there a convenient way to obtain confidence bands for ARMA (out-of  
sample) forecasts in Stata? Computing this for a one-step ahead  
forecast is simple, but more steps get complicated and also strongly  
increase in complexity when using ARMA models with several AR and MA  
terms. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!

Many thanks in advance!

Michael Bechtel

PS: I read Robert Yaffee's reply back in 2006, but unfortunately this  
advice only applies to one-step ahead forecasts (http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2006-06/msg00335.html 
)

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Am 29.07.2009 um 14:14 schrieb Giorgia Maffini:

> Dear Statalist Members,
>
> I wonder if anybody could kindly help me out with the following  
> problem.
>
> I am using a difference-GMM estimator (Arellano and Bond (1991),  
> Review of
> Economic Studies - AB) employing -xtabond2-. Instead of first- 
> differencing, I
> would like to second-difference the equation and instrument some of  
> its
> endogenous covariates with suitable lags of their own levels.
>
> In other words, the dependent variable in the newly differenced  
> equation would
> need to be D2.y = y_(it)-y_(it-2) [instead of D.y = y_(it)-y_(it-1),  
> as in the
> standard AB framework]. The endogenous covariate would be D2.x =  
> x_(it)-x_(it-2)
> [instead of D.x = x_(it)-x_(it-1), as in the standard AB framework].  
> I would
> instrument D2.x with the levels x_(it-3), x_(it-4), etc. and other  
> suitable
> instruments (e.g. z_it).
>
> The following command does NOT seem to produce the requested  
> procedure:
>
> xi: xtabond2 D2.y L.D2.y D2.x , /*
> */ gmm( y  x , lag(3 4) collapse ) iv( z , passthru ) /*
> noleveleq two robust
>
> Does anybody know how to implement the aforementioned estimation  
> using -xtabond2- ?
>
> The version of Stata that I am using is the following:
>
> Stata/MP 10.1 for Windows 64-bit x86-64
> Born 02 Feb 2009
>
> Thank you for your consideration.
>
> Regards,
>
> Giorgia
>
> -
> Giorgia Maffini - Research Fellow
> Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation - Said Business School
> Park End Street, Oxford OX1 1HP
> Tel: 01865 614847
>
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