Castle, Jennifer; Hendry, David - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2012
We consider forecasting with factors, variables and both, modeling in-sample using Autometrics so all principal …-error taxonomy for factor models highlights the impacts of location shifts on forecast-error biases. Forecasting US GDP over 1-, 4 … for nowcasting or short-term forecasting, but their relative performance declines as the forecast horizon increases …