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We develop novel forecasting methods for panel data with heterogeneous parameters and examine them together with … forecasting methods can perform better than forecasts based on individual estimates and demonstrate how gains in predictive … stock returns, we show that no single forecasting approach dominates uniformly. However, forecast combination and shrinkage …
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This paper provides a detailed assessment of the real-time forecast accuracy of a wide range of vector autoregressive models (VAR) that allow for both structural change and indicators sampled at different frequencies. We extend the literature by evaluating a mixed-frequency time-varying...
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This paper provides a novel approach to forecasting time series subject to discrete structural breaks. We propose a …
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This paper conducts a broad-based comparison of iterated and direct multi-step forecasting approaches applied to both … factor-augmented vector autoregression approach, improves forecasting performance for many variables, particularly at short …
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For forecasting and economic analysis many variables are used in logarithms (logs). In time series analysis this … beneficial for forecasting. Forecasts based on the original series are compared to forecasts based on logs. It is found that it … substantial forecasting improvements from taking logs are found if the log transformation actually stabilizes the variance of the …
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We have argued that from the standpoint of a policy maker, the uncertainty of using the average forecast is not the variance of the average, but rather the average of the variances of the individual forecasts that incorporate idiosyncratic risks. With a slight reformulation of the loss function...
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Quarterly GDP figures usually are published with a delay of some weeks. A common way to generate GDP series of higher frequency, i.e. to nowcast GDP, is to use available indicators to calculate a single index by means of a common factor derived from a dynamic factor model (DFM). This paper deals...
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