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In this paper the authors argue that a plausible reason why output and other major U.S. macroeconomic time series seem to follow a Markov switching process might be strictly related to expectations. The authors show that a time series of expectations of future output from the Survey of...
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predictors of interest), selective search within the range of possible models, control of collinearity, out-of-sample forecasting …
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La psicologia mostra che la probabilità soggettiva associata ad eventi economici futuri viene distorta in modo sistematico, rispetto a quella oggettiva, da elementi psicologici diffusi e persistenti. Lo stesso vale per l'interpretazione retrospettiva dei fatti economici. In particolare, si...
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suboptimal for forecasting purposes. The paper proposes the use of a class of shrinkage estimators that includes the Ridge … estimator for forecasting time series, with a special attention to GARCH and ACD models. The local large sample properties of …-daily financial durations forecasting application. The empirical application shows that an appropriate shrinkage forecasting …
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The Multiplicative Error Model introduced by Engle (2002) for non-negative valued processes is specified as the product of a (conditionally autoregressive) scale factor and an innovation process with positive support. In this paper we propose a multivariate extension of such a model, by taking...
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A new method, called relevant transformation of the inputs network approach (RETINA) is proposed as a tool for model building and selection. It is designed to improve on some of the shortcomings of neural networks. RETINA has the flexibility of neural network models, the concavity of the...
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This paper assesses the performance of volatility forecasting using focused selection and combination strategies to … include relevant explanatory variables in the forecasting model. The focused selection/combination strategies consist of … BIC. The methodology is applied to a daily recursive 1--step ahead value--at--risk (VaR) forecasting exercise of 4 widely …
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ETFs shows that the proposed methodology is able to significantly outperform common forecasting methods and delivers …
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