Handbook of Economic Forecasting part 2 pps
... 28 7 Abstract 28 8 Keywords 28 8 1. Introduction and overview 28 9 1.1. Historical notes 29 0 1 .2. Notation, terminology, abbreviations 29 1 2. VARMA processes 29 2 2. 1. Stationary processes 29 2 2. 2. ... misspecified models 25 4 Acknowledgements 27 1 Part IV: Appendices and References 27 1 Appendix A: Assumptions 27 1 Appendix B: Proofs 27 5 References 28 0 PART 2: F...
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... René M. Stulz 22 . HANDBOOK OF ECONOMIC GROWTH (in 2 volumes) Edited by Philippe Aghion and Steven N. Durlauf 23 . HANDBOOK OF THE ECONOMICS OF GIVING, ALTRUISM AND RECIPROCITY (in 2 volumes) Edited ... Throsby HANDBOOK OF LAW AND ECONOMICS Editors A. Mitchell Polinsky and Steven Shavell HANDBOOK OF THE ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION Editors Eric Hanushek and Finis Welch...
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... volatility 9 2. 1.3. The forecasting vector of interest 9 2. 2. Model completion with prior distributions 10 2. 2.1. The role of the prior 10 2. 2 .2. Prior predictive distributions 11 2. 2.3. Hierarchical ... distributions 17 2. 4. Forecasting 19 2. 4.1. Loss functions and the subjective decision maker 20 2. 4 .2. Probability forecasting and remote clients 22 2. 4.3. For...
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Handbook of Economic Forecasting part 6 ppsx
... model averaging. 2. 4.4. Conditional forecasting In some circumstances, selected elements of the vector of future values of y may be known, making the problem one of conditional forecasting. That ... conventional. This is partially the case in the stochastic volatility model described in Section 2. 1 .2. If, for example, the prior distribution of φ is truncated Gaussian and tho...
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Handbook of Economic Forecasting part 18 ppsx
... errors: (14)ω inv = σ 2 2 σ 2 1 + σ 2 2 , 1 − ω inv = σ 2 1 σ 2 1 + σ 2 2 . These weights result in a forecast error variance (15)σ 2 inv = σ 2 1 σ 2 2 (σ 2 1 + σ 2 2 + 2 12 σ 1 σ 2 ) (σ 2 1 + σ 2 2 ) 2 . After ... with the optimal weights: (13)σ 2 c (ω ∗ ) = σ 2 1 σ 2 2 (1 − ρ 2 12 ) σ 2 1 + σ 2 2 − 2 12 σ 1 σ 2 . It can easily be verified...
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Handbook of Economic Forecasting part 20 pps
... is (68) ¯ ω = ω 0 + ˆτ 2 ˆσ 2 +ˆτ 2 ( ˆ ω − ω 0 ). The empirical Bayes combination shrinks ˆ ω towards ω 0 and amounts to setting g = ˆσ 2 / ˆτ 2 in (67). Notice that if ˆσ 2 / ˆτ 2 → 0, the OLS estimator ... σ −N−v 0 −1 exp −(v 0 s 2 0 + (ω −ω 0 ) M(ω − ω 0 )) 2 2 . Under normality of ε the likelihood function for the data is (65)L(ω,σ|y, ˆ y) ∝ σ −T exp −(y...
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Handbook of Economic Forecasting part 21 pps
... normal mean: ¯y − 2. 58 σ T , ¯y + 1.96 σ T , ¯y − 1.96 σ T , ¯y + 2. 58 σ T . The average of these confidence intervals, [¯y − 2. 27 σ T , ¯y + 2. 27 σ T ] has a coverage of 97.7%. Combining ... estimation of the full covariance matrix for the forecast errors. Aiolfi and Timmermann (20 06) find evidence of persistence in the out -of- sample performance of linear and nonlin...
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Handbook of Economic Forecasting part 22 ppsx
... strategies, categories of economic variables and forecast horizons (h). All TMB25% TMB50% TMB75% Mean Median TK DMSFE PB h = 1 0.91 0. 92 0. 92 0. 92 0.94 0. 92 0. 92 1.00 h = 2 0.89 0.89 0.89 0.89 ... (h). h = 1 TMB25% TMB50% TMB75% Mean Median TK DMSFE PB US 0.88 0.89 0.90 0.90 0.93 0.90 0.91 1.00 UK 0.91 0.91 0. 92 0. 92 0.93 0.91 0. 92 1.00 Germany 0. 92 0.93 0.93 0. 92 0....
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Handbook of Economic Forecasting part 24 pps
... use CS2(i)–(ii) in the study of the limiting behavior of V 1T and CS2(iii)–(iv) in the study of V 2T . 6 For example, if f(Y|X t ,θ 0 ) ∼ N(αX t ,σ 2 ),thenc 0.95 f (X t ) = 1.645 + σαX t . 20 8 ... − u 2 2 1 |u| 1 . Also, define (10) M(j) = 1 0 1 0 φ(u 1 ,u 2 ) − 1 2 du 1 du 2 and (11) Q(j) = (n − j) M(j) −A 0 h V 1 /2 0 , with A 0 h = h −1 − 2...
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Handbook of Economic Forecasting part 27 ppsx
... Appendix A. 21 For the case of h = 1, the limit distribution of ENC-T corresponds with that of ENC-T ,giveninPropo- sition 4 .2, and the limiting distribution is derived by McCracken (20 00). 23 6 V. ... predictability, a partial list of which includes Berkowitz and Giorgianni (20 01), Mark (1995), Kilian (1999a), Clarida, Sarno and Taylor (20 03), Kilian and Taylor (20 03), Ross...
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