in closed-form solutions for the best forecast. When applied to data on 132 U.S. monthly macroeconomic time series, the …

exploit many predictors, and this chapter surveys these methods. The first group of methods considered is forecast combination … (forecast pooling), in which a single forecast is produced from a panel of many forecasts. The second group of methods is based … increasingly precise as the number of series increases) can be used to forecast individual economic variables. The third group of …