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. -- Directional forecasts ; directional accuracy ; forecast evaluation ; testing independence ; contingency tables ; bootstrap …
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Common approaches to test for the economic value of directional forecasts are based on the classical Chi-square test for independence, Fisher’s exact test or the Pesaran and Timmerman (1992) test for market timing. These tests are asymptotically valid for serially independent observations....
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-switching models, and forecast combination to predict the dynamics in the S&P 500. First, we aggregate the weekly information of 115 …
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accuracy is assessed through in-sample forecast evaluation across various data sub-samples. This paper also discusses how these …
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development and production processes. With this in mind, this paper proposes new multivariate models to forecast monthly car sales … data using economic variables and Google online search data. An out-of-sample forecasting comparison with forecast horizons … forecast horizons. These results also hold after several robustness checks which consider nonlinear models, different out …
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Electricity price forecasting has become an area of increasing relevance in recent years. Despite the growing interest … and actual prices. The ability to predict the dynamics of the price of electricity on the spot market is an important …
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This paper analyzes the role of uncertainty on both exchange rate expectations and forecast errors of professionals for … Bayesian VAR approach, we observe that effects on forecast errors of professionals turn out to be more significant compared to …
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Researchers in finance very often rely on highly persistent – nearly integrated – explanatory variables to predict returns. However, statistical inference in predictive regressions depends critically upon the stochastic properties of the posited explanatory variable, and in particular, of...
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paper we propose a method to forecast the stock market's equity premium which exploits the frequency relationship between …
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An immediate consequence of the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) is the absence of auto-correlation of the return series of the financial prices and the exclusion of excess profitability made by any (active) trading strategy. However, the precondition for the validity of EMH, which assumes that...
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