This paper considers the problem of aggregation in the case of large linear dynamic panels, where each micro unit is … Pesaran (2003), an optimal aggregate function is derived, and the limiting behavior of the aggregation error is investigated … which "observed" inflation persistence at the aggregate level is due to aggregation and/or common unobserved factors. Our …

The issue of forecast aggregation is to determine whether it is better to forecast a series directly or instead … results, it is generally accepted that forecast aggregation is an empirical issue. Empirical results in the literature often … go unexplained. This leaves forecasters in the dark when confronted with the option of forecast aggregation. We take our …

This paper considers the problem of aggregation in the case of large linear dynamic panels, where each micro unit is … Pesaran (2003), an optimal aggregate function is derived, and the limiting behavior of the aggregation error is investigated … which ﾑobservedﾒ inflation persistence at the aggregate level is due to aggregation and/or common unobserved factors. Our …

The issue of forecast aggregation is to determine whether it is better to forecast a series directly or instead … results, it is generally accepted that forecast aggregation is an empirical issue. Empirical results in the literature often … go unexplained. This leaves forecasters in the dark when confronted with the option of forecast aggregation. We take our …

This paper considers the problem of aggregation in the case of large linear dynamic panels, where each micro unit is … Pesaran (2003), an optimal aggregate function is derived, and the limiting behavior of the aggregation error is investigated … which ‘observed' inflation persistence at the aggregate level is due to aggregation and/or common unobserved factors. Our …

calculated as a suitably weighted mean of submeans. An analogous property of index numbers is called consistency in aggregation … aggregation may be interpreted as consistency between the treatment of ratios and differences. Also, many of the classical axioms …

relevant subgroups as well as for the whole data. A method of calculation is said to be consistent in aggregation if it gives … definition of consistency in aggregation is given for a general class of aggregation rules. We show that any aggregation method … algebraic methods to derive certain properties of index numbers satisfying consistency in aggregation. In particular, we show …

This paper considers the problem of aggregation in the case of large linear dynamic panels, where each micro unit is … Pesaran (2003), an optimal aggregate function is derived, and the limiting behavior of the aggregation error is investigated … which "observed" inflation persistence at the aggregate level is due to aggregation and/or common unobserved factors. Our …

property of consistency in aggregation. This property, however, is indispensable for economic studies that attempt to …. The present paper introduces a thoroughly motivated formal definition of consistency in aggregation and proves that …, contrary to general perception, the three superlative price indices can be considered as consistent in aggregation. Furthermore …