During his period at the LSE from the early 1960s to the mid 1980s, John Denis Sargan rose to international prominence and the LSE emerged as the world's leading centre for econometrics. Within this context, we examine the life of Denis Sargan, describe his major research accomplishments,...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Key Concepts: A Series of Primers -- Chapter 3: Why is the World Always Changing? -- Chapter 4: Making Trends and Breaks Work for us -- Chapter 5: Indicator Saturation Methods -- Chapter 6: Combining Theory and Data -- Chapter 7: Seeing into the Future --...

Structural models' inflation forecasts are often inferior to those of naïve devices. This chapter theoretically and empirically assesses this for UK annual and quarterly inflation, using the theoretical framework in Clements and Hendry (1998, 1999). Forecasts from equilibrium-correction...

In recent work, we have developed a theory of economic forecasting for empirical econometric models when there are structural breaks. This research shows that well-specified models may forecast poorly, whereas it is possible to design forecasting devices more immune to the effects of breaks. In...