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from the weather forecasting literature known as `ensemble modelling'. In this approach, uncertainty about model … provide two examples of this modelling strategy: (i) forecasting inflation with a disaggregate ensemble; and (ii) forecasting …
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from the weather forecasting literature known as `ensemble modelling'. In this approach, uncertainty about model … provide two examples of this modelling strategy: (i) forecasting inflation with a disaggregate ensemble; and (ii) forecasting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012143720
In the recent years several commentators hinted at an increase of the correlation between equity and commodity prices, and blamed investment in commodity-related products for this. First, this paper investigates such claims by looking at various measures of correlation. Next, we assess to what...
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This paper shows entropic tilting to be a flexible and powerful tool for combining medium-term forecasts from BVARs with short-term forecasts from other sources (nowcasts from either surveys or other models). Tilting systematically improves the accuracy of both point and density forecasts, and...
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volatility specifications, in terms of point forecasting to some degree and density forecasting to a greater degree. …
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Increasingly, professional forecasters and academic researchers present model-based and subjective or judgment-based forecasts in economics which are accompanied by some measure of uncertainty. In its most complete form this measure is a probability density function for future values of the...
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forecasting daily electricity prices in two of the main European markets, Germany and Italy. We do that by means of mixed …-frequency models, introducing a Bayesian approach to reverse unrestricted MIDAS models (RU-MIDAS). We study the forecasting accuracy …
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volatility specifications, in terms of point forecasting to some degree and density forecasting to a greater degree. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012143797
-of-sample forecasting experiment. Our results show that exploiting the informational content in a common global business cycle factor … improves forecasting accuracy in terms of both point and density forecast evaluation across a large panel of countries. In line … earlier in the evaluation sample. However, this time is different also in other respects. On longer forecasting horizons the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012143861
-of-sample forecasting experiment. Our results show that exploiting the informational content in a common global business cycle factor … improves forecasting accuracy in terms of both point and density forecast evaluation across a large panel of countries. In line … earlier in the evaluation sample. However, this time is different also in other respects. On longer forecasting horizons the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011208180