Araújo, Gustavo Silva; Gaglianone, Wagner Piazza - In: Latin American journal of central banking : LAJCB 4 (2023) 2, pp. 1-29
In this paper, we explore machine learning (ML) methods to improve inflation forecasting in Brazil. An extensive out … identify the key variables to predict inflation, thus helping to open the ML black box. Despite the evidence of no universal … of mean-squared error. Moreover, the results indicate the existence of nonlinearities in the inflation dynamics, which …