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New models to forecast the real price of oil on the basis of macroeconomic indicators and Google search data are …
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Naïve 1 forecasts are often used as a benchmark when assessing the accuracy of a set of forecasts. A ratio is obtained to show the upper bound of a forecasting method's accuracy relative to naïve 1 forecasts when the mean squared error is used to measure accuracy. Formulae for the ratio are...
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at multiple horizons individually, we propose to jointly consider all horizons within a forecast path. We define the …
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In this paper we consider the value of Google Trends search data for nowcasting (and forecasting) GDP growth for a developed (U.S.) and emerging-market economy (Brazil). Our focus is on the marginal contribution of "Big Data" in the form of Google Trends data over and above that of traditional...
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We propose an automatic machine-learning system to forecast realized volatility for S&P 100 stocks using 118 features … extraordinary performance across forecast horizons, and the improvement in out-of-sample R2's translates into nontrivial economic …
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basis of available information at the time the budget is prepared; we find that the forecast error based is six times … greater than the error based on ex-post projection. These results imply that the forecast error predominantly reflects … are even more limited — based only on lagged tax revenues and a GDP growth forecast — provide less-accurate projections …
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Forecasting Realized Volatility (RV) is of paramount importance for both academics andpractitioners. During recent decades, academic literature has made substantial progressboth in terms of methods and predictors under consideration. Despite the popularity oftechnical indicators, there has been...
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This article shows how the recovery of inflation in 2009-10 occurred precisely at the only time (since 1985) the models would predict disinflation, i.e., inflation went up when the models said it should go down
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In this paper, we ask whether it is possible to forecast gross value-added (GVA) and its sectoral subcomponents at the … regional level. With an autoregressive distributed lag model we forecast total and sectoral GVA for one German state (Saxony … usage of different forecast pooling strategies and factor models. Our results show that we are able to increase forecast …
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models' out-of-sample forecasting performance for the period 2012 q3 to 2016 q2 by using a number of forecast evaluation … Statistics. Additionally, we constructed several composite forecasts in order to test whether a combination forecast is superior … increases. Second, the disaggregated ARIMA model has the smallest forecasting errors. Third, majority of the forecast evaluation …
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