This paper proposes a monetary model with firm entry as a means for alleviating the difficulties of real business cycle models in reproducing the smoothness and persistence of macroeconomic variables together with the volatility of profits and markups. Simulations show that my baseline model...

Although many studies on the directional accuracy of forecasts by international organizations and professional forecasters have been scrutinized, little attention has been paid to forecasts by business leaders. In order to address this gap, we use directional tests to investigate whether...

Forecast adjustment commonly occurs when organizational forecasters adjust a statistical forecast of demand to take into account factors which are excluded from the statistical calculation. This paper addresses the question of how to measure the accuracy of such adjustments. We show that many...

The size and power properties of several tests of equal Mean Square Prediction Errors (MSPE) and of Forecast Encompassing (FE) are evaluated, using Monte Carlo simulations, in the context of nested dynamic regression models. The highest size-adjusted power is achieved by the F-type test of...

The paper focuses on a comparison between the direct and iterated AR predictors for difference stationary processes. In particular, it provides new methods for comparing the efficiency of the two predictors. The methods are based on an encompassing representation for the two predictors, which...

This paper demonstrates that the Conference Board’s Composite Leading Index (CLI) has significant real-time predictive ability for Industrial Production (IP) growth rates at horizons from one to six months ahead over the period 1989–2009. A popular but unrealistic analysis, which combines...

Common approaches to testing the economic value of directional forecasts are based on the classical χ2-test for independence, Fisher’s exact test or the Pesaran and Timmermann test for market timing. These tests are asymptotically valid for serially independent observations, but in the...