Emerging Needs and Tailored Products for Untapped Markets by Luisa Anderloni, Maria Debora Braga and Emanuele Maria Carluccio 14 ppt

... parametric and semi-parametric models, and models that have and do not have closed-form solutions. The typology appears in Table 2.1. Both linear and polynomial models have closed-form solutions for ... β>0. 3 GARCH stands for generalized autoregresssive conditional heteroskedasticity, and was introduced by Bollerslev (1986, 1987) and Engle (1982). Engle received the Nobe...

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... particular point forecasts. Granger and Jeon (2002) have suggested “thick modeling” as a strategy for neural net- works, particularly for forecasting. The idea is simple and straightforward. We should ... two real numbers r 1 and r 2 from the [0, 1] interval and one random number s from a standard normal distribution. The mutated coefficient  Ω i,p is given by the following formu...

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... Model Originally put forward by Kantz and Schreiber (1997), the distorted long- memory (DLM) model was recently analyzed for stochastic neural network approximation by Lai and Wong (2001). The ... 500 −20 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 FIGURE 5 .14. Returns of DLM model 3 We note, however, the unit root tests are designed for variables emanating from a linear data-generating proc...

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... process. We specify four lags for the dependent variable. For quarterly data, this is equivalent to a 12-month lag for monthly data, used by Stock and Watson (1999) for forecasting inflation. To make ... draw upon the standard Phillips curve framework used by Stock and Watson (1999) for forecasting inflation in the United States. They define the inflation as an h-period ahead fo...

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... (ed.), The Demand for Durable Goods. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 149 –178. Clark, Todd E., and Michael W. McCracken (2001), “Tests of Fore- cast Accuracy and Encompassing for Nested Models,” ... an Application to Forecasting Inflation,” IEEE Transactions in Neural Networks 12: 674–683. Chow, Gregory (1960), “Statistical Demand Functions for Automobiles and Their Use for...

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... production forecasting example, 145 –155 data used in, 146 148 evaluation of, 150–152 interpretation of, 152–155 MATLAB program notes for, 166 models used in, 148 –150 autoregressive models, 14, 55, ... Poloni, and G. Winter (eds.), Genetic Algorithms and Evolution Strategy in Engineering and Computer Science: Recent Advances and Industrial Applications. West Sussex, England: J...

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... bond market for confirmation. A bullish technical forecast for bonds is also a bullish technical forecast for stocks. Conversely, a bearish analysis for bonds is a bearish forecast for stocks. ... market and falling commodity markets, the spring and early summer saw surging commodity markets and a weak bond market. This surge in the CRB Index was caused mainly by strong g...

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... 1955, before computers were so common, the RAND Corporation published a book entitled A Million Random Digits. It was used in selecting random trials for experimental designs and simulations (and ... prices that can be forecast based on a given information set. The only possible changes in price are random, driven by unforecastable external information. Profits occur only by chance....

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