There appears to be a consensus that the recent instability in global financial markets may be attributable in part to the failure of financial modeling. More specifically, current risk models have failed to properly assess the risks associated with large adverse stock price behavior. In this...

This paper systematically studies the use of mixed-frequency data sets and suggests that the use of high frequency data in forecasting economic aggregates can improve forecast accuracy. The best way of using this information is to build a single model, for example, an ARMA model with missing...

We analyze the properties of multiperiod forecasts which are formulated by a number of companies for a fixed horizon ahead which moves each month one period closer and are collected and diffused each month by some polling agency. Some descriptive evidence and a formal model suggest that knowing...

Wissenschaftliche Prognosen unterscheiden sich von sonstigen Vorhersagen nicht zuletzt dadurch, daß mit ihnen der Anspruch auf systematische Verbesserbarkeit verknüpft wird. Hat sich die Treffsicherheit von Konjunkturprognosen als Folge des wissenschaftlich-technischen Fortschritts verbessert?

In der Märzausgabe des WIRTSCHAFTSDIENST haben Hugo Dicke und Hans H. Glismann sich mit der Frage befaßt, wie treffsicher die Konjunkturprognosen der wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Forschungsinstitute sind1. In diesem Beitrag gehen sie der Frage nach, ob der wissen schaftlich-technische...

We model the dynamics of ask and bid curves in a limit order book market using a dynamic semiparametric factor model. The shape of the curves is captured by a factor structure which is estimated nonparametrically. Corresponding factor loadings are assumed to follow multivariate dynamics and are...

We test the importance of multivariate information for modelling and forecasting inflation's conditional mean and variance. In the literature, the existence of inflation's conditional heteroskedasticity has been debated for years, as it seemed to appear only in some datasets and for some lag...