The valuation of house prices is drawing noteworthy attention due to worldwide financial and real estate crises in the last decade. Therefore, there is an immediate need to design more effective predictive systems of house prices. Indeed, investors, creditors, and governments are all interested...

Despite the clear success of forecast combination in many economic environments, several important issues remain incompletely resolved. The issues relate to selection of the set of forecasts to combine, and whether some form of additional regularization (e.g., shrinkage) is desirable. Against...