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Seven pitfalls of technical analysis
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Plastun, Alex - 2023
This paper examines the main drawbacks of technical analysis. Although this is widely used by practitioners, from an academic perspective it can only be seen as a form of "voodoo finance". In particular, it runs into the following pitfalls: Subjectivity; Doubtful assumptions; Unjustified...
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The information content of dividends : safer profits, not higher profits
Michaely, Roni; Rossi, Stefano; Weber, Michael - 2017 - This version: October 2017
model's predictions, cash-flow volatility changes in the opposite direction from that of dividend changes and larger changes …
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Predictability of bull and bear markets : a new look at forecasting stock market regimes (and returns) in the US
Haase, Felix; Neuenkirch, Matthias - 2021
-switching models, and forecast combination to predict the dynamics in the S&P 500. First, we aggregate the weekly information of 115 …
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A general approach to recovering market expectations from futures prices with an application to crude oil
Baumeister, Christiane; Kilian, Lutz - 2016
Futures markets are a potentially valuable source of information about price expectations. Exploiting this information has proved difficult in practice, because time-varying risk premia often render the futures price a poor measure of the market expectation of the price of the underlying asset....
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Forecasting random walks under drift instability
Pesaran, M. Hashem (contributor); Pick, Andreas (contributor) - 2008
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Inside the crystal ball : new approaches to predicting the gasoline price at the pump
Baumeister, Christiane; Kilian, Lutz; Lee, Thomas - 2016
information. We explore several new forecasting approaches for the U.S. retail price of gasoline and compare their accuracy with … the no-change forecast. Our key finding is that substantial reductions in the mean-squared prediction error (MSPE) of … accuracy. The most accurate individual model is a VAR(1) model for real retail gasoline and Brent crude oil prices. Even …
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Measuring uncertainty of a combined forecast and some tests for forecaster heterogeneity
Lahiri, Kajal; Peng, Huaming; Sheng, Xuguang - 2015
We have argued that from the standpoint of a policy maker, the uncertainty of using the average forecast is not the … that the uncertainty of the average forecast can be expressed as the disagreement among the forecasters plus the volatility … the conceptually correct benchmark forecast uncertainty. …
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Forecasting tail risks : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Macro, Money and International Finance, February 2015
De Nicolò, Gianni; Lucchetta, Marcella - 2015
Reliable early warning signals are essential for timely implementation of macroeconomic and macro-prudential policies. This paper presents an early warning system as a set of multi-period forecasts of indicators of tail real and financial (systemic) risks. Forecasts are obtained from: (a)...
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Tax revenue forecast errors : wrong predictions of the tax base or the elasticity?
Göttert, Marcell; Lehmann, Robert - 2021 - This version: June 14, 2021
In this paper, we disentangle tax revenue forecast errors into influences stemming from wrong macroeconomic assumptions … the forecast errors of the energy tax and the sales taxes. For the overall tax sum, more than two-third of the error can … can reduce tax revenue forecast errors. …
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Inefficiency in social security trust funds forecasts
Lahiri, Kajal; Zhang, Junyan; Zhao, Yongchen - 2021
We examine forecast accuracy and efficiency of the Social Security Administration's projections for cost rate, trust … in the accuracy of the forecasts during 2010’s has reversed. The level of informational inefficiency was pervasive during …
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