series forecasting models for economic variables. In these models, the reduction of the predictors and the modeling and … forecasting of the response y are carried out in two separate and independent phases. We introduce a potentially more attractive … of widely used macroeconomic series data with one or two sufficient reductions delivering similar forecasting performance …

. Quantile regressions indicate that most of sentiment's forecasting power arises from signaling downside risks to the economy …

Small-scale VARs are widely used in macroeconomics for forecasting U.S. output, prices, and interest rates. However …, recent work suggests these models may exhibit instabilities. As such, a variety of estimation or forecasting methods might be … effectiveness of such methods in real time forecasting. We use forecasts from univariate time series models, the Survey of …