A panel data method is used to evaluate the impact of the Closer Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) signed between Mainland China and Hong Kong. Using the time series data of Hong Kong, Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Taiwan,...

This paper reviews various forecast methods including combination using theoretically optimal weights and those under model selection approaches. In addition, we suggest two modified simple averaging forecast combination methods—a mean corrected and a mean and scale corrected method. We...

We consider several geometric approaches for combining forecasts in large samples—a simple eigenvector approach, a mean corrected eigenvector and trimmed eigenvector approach. We give conditions where geometric approach yields identical result as the regression approach. We also consider a...