Pesaran, M. Hashem; Schuermann, Til; Smith, L. Vanessa - CESifo - 2008
. The forecasts are compared to typical benchmarks: univariate autoregressive and random walk models. Building on the … forecasts obtained from different GVAR models estimated over alternative sample periods. Given the size of the modeling problem … very real likelihood of possibly multiple structural breaks, averaging forecasts across both models and windows makes a …