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This paper employs concepts from information theory to choosing the dimension of a data set. We calculate relative measures of information in the data in terms of eigenvalues and derive criteria to determine the `optimal' size of the data set, in particular whether an extra variable adds...
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direction, this paper focuses on the identification of expensive trades before actual trading takes place. However, forecasting …
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This paper considers the problem of forecasting under continuous and discrete structural breaks and proposes weighting …. In practice, where information on structural breaks is uncertain a forecasting procedure based on robust weights is … performance of our approach relative to other forecasting methods. …
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-term forecasting performance. …
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In this study we construct a business cycle indicator for the Netherlands. The Christiano-Fitzgerald band-pass .lter is employed to isolate the cycle using the de.nition of business cycle frequencies as waves with lengths longer than 3 years and shorter than 11 years. The main advantage of...
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This paper considers the issue of forecasting financial fragility of banks and insurances using a panel data set of …
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In this paper the business cycles of nine OECD-countries are identified by applying the Christiano-Fitzgerald bandpass filter. Turning points, recession and expansion phases and other descriptive statistics are derived from these business cylce indicators. Moreover, the international linkage...
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structural model for the Netherlands sup- plemented with leading indicator variables. In a pseudo out-of-sample forecasting … forecasting performance of the factor models. However, only the dynamic factor model systematically outper- forms and encompasses … the autoregressive benchmark model with an op- timal subset of the data of around 110 series. The forecasting gains in …
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forecast for the euro area in December 2000, forecasting inflation for the area has become of increasing importance. In this … study it is systematically analysed whether the forecasting performance of euro area inflation models can be improved by … aggregating forecasts of HICP subindices in comparison to forecasting total euro area inflation directly. The comparison is …
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We conduct a systematic comparison of the short-term forecasting abilities of eleven statistical models and … factors is a more promising forecasting strategy than averaging a large number of indicator-based forecasts. The dynamic and …
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