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inflation forecasts. Our forecasting approach is based on extracting the factors from the subcomponents of the CPI at the … disaggregated price data improves forecasting performance. The forecasts of the factor models that extract the information from the …
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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...
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forecasting US inflation by mixing density forecasts from an autoregressive model and the Survey of Professional Forecasters. …
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-of-sample forecasting ability to examine the significance of each macro variable in explaining the stock returns behaviour. In addition, we …
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This paper investigates the empirical relevance of structural breaks in forecasting stock return volatility using both … return volatility in South Africa. However, based on the out-of-sample forecasting exercise, we find that even though there …-horizon forecasting of stock return volatility. …
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In this paper, we examine the predictive ability, both in-sample and the out-of-sample, for South African stock returns using a number of financial variables, based on monthly data with an in-sample period covering 1990:01 to 1996:12 and the out-of-sample period of 1997:01 to 2010:04. We use the...
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improvements in forecasting performance. The overnight returns exhibit some in-sample forecasting power. However, the accuracy …
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model using Bayesian techniques and evaluate the forecasting properties. Additionally, we provide an impulse response …
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The increasing interest aroused by more advanced forecasting techniques, together with the requirement for more … evaluate the forecasting performance of neural modelling relative to that of time series methods at a regional level … compare the forecasting performance of linear models to that of nonlinear alternative approaches. Pre-processed official …
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In this study we investigate the yield curve forecasting performance of Dynamic Nelson–Siegel Model (DNS), affine term … variables in forecasting the yield curve. We have reached numbers of important results: 1—Macroeconomic variables are very … useful in forecasting the yield curve. 2—The forecasting performances of the models depend on the period under review. 3 …
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