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provide a theoretical justification of the use of random subspace methods and show their usefulness when forecasting monthly … used to construct a forecast. Second, we discuss random projection regression, where artificial predictors are formed by … randomly weighting the original predictors. Using recent results from random matrix theory, we obtain a tight bound on the mean …
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This paper assesses the performance of a number of long-term interest rate forecast approaches, namely time series … is compared using out of sample forecast errors, where a random walk forecast acts as benchmark. It is found that for … five major OECD countries, namely United States, Germany, United Kingdom, The Netherlands and Japan, the other forecasting …
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In this paper we study what professional forecasters actually explain. We use spectral analysis and state space modeling to decompose economic time series into a trend, a business-cycle, and an irregular component. To examine which components are captured by professional forecasters we regress...
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We propose a novel and numerically efficient quantification approach to forecast uncertainty of the real price of oil … been applied to oil price forecasting, by allowing for sequentially updating of time-varying combination weights …, estimation of time-varying forecast biases and facets of miscalibration of individual forecast densities and time-varying inter …
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We propose a novel and numerically efficient quantification approach to forecast uncertainty of the real price of oil … been applied to oil price forecasting, by allowing for sequentially updating of time-varying combination weights …, estimation of time-varying forecast biases and facets of miscalibration of individual forecast densities and time-varying inter …
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wholesale power markets have only recently been deregulated. We introduce the weather factor into well-known forecasting models … forecasts improves the forecast accuracy, and in particular new models with power transformations of weather forecast variables …
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Management scholars have sought to answer the question: is there a financial payoff for ad-dressing ecological and social issues? We move beyond this question and include a time com-ponent for corporate financial performance (CFP) and a firm’s innovativeness in order to ask: when does it pay?...
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To stimulate companies to take corporate social responsibility collectively, for example for fair trade or the environment, their agreements may be exempted from cartel law. To qualify, the public benefits must compensate consumers for higher prices of the private good. We study the balancing...
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forecasting the term structure of interest rates. As expected, I find that using more flexible models leads to a better in … maturities and forecast horizons. Subsample analysis shows that this outperformance is also consistent over time. …
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