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In this paper we suggest an approach to comparison of models' forecasting performance in unstable environments. Our … tracking how the relative forecasting performance of competing models evolves over time. We illustrate the suggested approach …
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The accuracy of real-time forecasts of macroeconomic variables that are subject to revisions may crucially depend on the choice of data used to compare the forecasts against. We put forward a flexible time-varying parameter regression framework to obtain early estimates of the final value of...
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found to perform better in out-of-sample forecasting than a benchmark linear model. An empirical illustration for US GDP …
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We propose a new methodology to identify the sources of models’ forecasting performance. The methodology decomposes the … models’ forecasting performance into asymptotically uncorrelated components that measure instabilities in the forecasting … understanding the causes of the poor forecasting ability of economic models for exchange rate determination. …
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hybrid forecasts. Superior forecasting performance is achieved by both, taking into account the conditional expected …
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and six quarters, ii) Using disaggregated price data improves forecasting performance, and iii) The factors are related to …
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We propose a theoretical framework for assessing whether a forecast model estimated over one period can provide good forecasts over a subsequent period. We formalize this idea by defining a forecast breakdown as a situation in which the out-of-sample performance of the model, judged by some loss...
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In this paper, we explore the potential gains from alternative combinations of the surveyed forecasts in the ECB Survey of Professional Forecasters. Our analysis encompasses a variety of methods including statistical combinations based on principal components analysis and trimmed means,...
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In this paper, we propose a framework to evaluate the subjective density forecasts of macroeconomists using micro data from the euro area Survey of Professional Forecasters (SPF). A key aspect of our analysis is the evaluation of the entire predictive densities, including an evaluation of the...
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We propose methods to evaluate the risk assessments collected as part of the ECB Survey of Professional Forecasters (SPF). Our approach focuses on direction-of-change predictions as well as the prediction of relatively more extreme macroeconomic outcomes located in the upper and lower regions of...
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