expected change in earnings, our study investigates how firms manage their earnings forecast strategy once they have decided to … to adopt a multiple earnings forecast (a portfolio) approach in the statutory sanctions period, particularly for the …

forecast combinations, which are widely used in macroeconomic forecasting, and compares these with a lesser known alternative …. We also argue that forecast combinations can be interpreted as a restricted form of partial least squares regression ….S. macroeconomic and financial data to forecast, for the United States, CPI inflation, core CPI inflation, industrial production …

-run forecast horizons. The model is shown to be capable of predicting turning points and usable for policy analysis under different …

In this paper we price a precipitation option based on empirical weather data from Germanyusing different pricing … that a considerable risk remainswith producers who are located remotely from the weather station. Another finding isthat … weather derivatives. …