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This study evaluates potential migration flows to the European Union from its eastern neighbors and Croatia. We perform out-of-sample forecasts using an adaption of the model of Hatton (1995) to time series cross-sectional data about post-enlargement migration flows following the EU's 2004...
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of future events, Manski (2004) has recently argued that there is little existing theory supporting this practice. We …
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forecast errors; the training effect suggests that modest educational interventions can durably improve forecasting skills …. Forecast receipt increased demand for protective masks and increased the responsiveness of outdoor time to pollution. Forecast …
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mortality if and only if mortality risk is convex in forecast errors. We test for such convexity using data on the universe of …
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This paper takes advantage of a natural experiment to examine the relationship between the price and saliency of health …
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Prediction Markets, sometimes referred to as "information markets", "idea futures" or "event futures", are markets where participants trade contracts whose payoffs are tied to a future event, thereby yielding prices that can be interpreted as market-aggregated forecasts. This article summarizes...
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Forecasting errors pose a serious problem of identification, often neglected in empirical applications. Any attempt of estimating choice models under uncertainty may lead to severely biased results in the presence of forecasting errors even when individual expectations on future events are...
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estimator exhibit the superior forecast performance, (iii) the fixed effects estimators outperform GMM and other instrumental …
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-series data (cvlasso), and theory-driven ('rigorous') penalization for the lasso and square-root lasso for cross-section and panel …
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startup characteristics to forecast the performance of newly started enterprises over a five years' time horizon. The … accuracy are low. To forecast the two innovation-related performance outcomes well, we only need to include a set of variables …
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