Research in combining of economic forecasts made by several research institutes on the same economic variable has focused on estimation, hoping that the combined forecast will be improved by taking into account the expert opinions of the institutes. We provide a confidence interval on the...

GARCH Models have become a workhouse in volatility forecasting of financial and monetary market time series. In this article, we assess the small sample properties in estimation and the performance in volatility forecasting of four competing distribution free methods, including quasi-maximum...

In dieser Arbeit werden parametrische Modelle zur Prognose von Spielen der Fußball-Bundesliga geschätzt. Dabei werden in einem ersten Schritt die Spielstärken der beteiligten Mannschaften geschätzt, aus denen zu erwartende Tordifferenzen abgeleitet werden. Hierbei werden verschiedenen...

The problem of predicting 0-1-events is considered under general conditions, including stationary processes with short and long memory as well as processes with changing distribution patterns. Nonparametric estimates of the probability function and prediction intervals are obtained.