We examine the performance of artificial neural networks (ANNs) for technical trading rules for forecasting daily exchange rates. The main conclusion of our attempt is that ANNs perform well, and that they are often better than linear models. Furthermore, the precise number of hidden layer units...

This paper analyzes forecasts, for ten key annually observed economic variables for the Netherlands, created by the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB) for 1971–2007. These CPB forecasts are all manually modified model forecasts, where the model is a (very) large...

The quality of economic institutions can impact economic growth and it can mediate the relation between economic growth and its drivers. We examine the relevance of one such institution, which is the establishment of a national statistical institute for, amongst others, national accounts. We...