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very effective in forecasting; d. within no-arbitrage models, assuming time-varying risk price is more favourable than … assuming constant risk price for medium horizon-maturity forecast when yield factors dominate the information set, and for …
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intertemporal CAPM with the market portfolio as the only factor, size and book-to-market play separate roles in describing the cross …-section of stock returns is not necessarily inconsistent with a single-factor conditional CAPM model. …
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advantage theory before drawing on a model of global wine markets to project developments in Asia and elsewhere over the next …
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theory-based moment conditions. An example is "improving" the forecasts from atheoretical econometric models, such as factor … realistic situation in which economic theory does not specify a likelihood for the variables of interest, and thus cannot be …
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Recently, there has been increased interest in real-time forecasts of the real price of crude oil. Standard oil price … oil supply conditions. Such scenario analysis is of central importance for end-users of oil price forecasts interested in … to these scenarios affect the upside and downside risks embodied in the baseline real-time oil price forecast. Such risk …
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forecasts of the real price of oil from a variety of models. We document that revisions of the data typically represent news …-time forecasts of the real price of oil can be more accurate than the no-change forecast at horizons up to one year. In some cases … to understand historical fluctuations in the real price of oil, but to construct conditional forecasts that reflect …
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We address some of the key questions that arise in forecasting the price of crude oil. What do applied forecasters need … to know about the choice of sample period and about the tradeoffs between alternative oil price series and model … in forecasting the price of oil? How useful are survey forecasts? How does one evaluate the sensitivity of a baseline oil …
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This paper investigates whether oil prices have a reliable and stable out-of-sample relationship with the Canadian/U.S dollar nominal exchange rate. Despite state-of-the-art methodologies, we find little systematic relation between oil prices and the exchange rate at the monthly and quarterly...
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This paper proposes new methodologies for evaluating out-of-sample forecasting performance that are robust to the choice of the estimation window size. The methodologies involve evaluating the predictive ability of forecasting models over a wide range of window sizes. We show that the tests...
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There is a broad consensus in the literature that costs of information processing and acquisition may generate costly disagreements in expectations among economic agents, and that central banks may play a central role in reducing such dispersion in expectations. This paper analyses empirically...
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