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I translate familiar concepts of discrete-time time-series to contnuous-time equivalent. I cover lag operators, ARMA models, the relation between levels and differences, integration and cointegration, and the Hansen-Sargent prediction formulas
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Forecasts of the rate of price inflation play a central role in the formulation of monetary policy, and forecasting … forecasting puzzles. It appears currently to be difficult for multivariate forecasts to improve on forecasts made using this time …
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We consider both frequentist and empirical Bayes forecasts of a single time series using a linear model with T observations and K orthonormal predictors. The frequentist formulation considers estimators that are equivariant under permutations (reorderings) of the regressors. The empirical Bayes...
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Volatility permeates modern financial theories and decision making processes. As such, accurate measures and good forecasts of future volatility are critical for the implementation and evaluation of asset pricing theories. In response to this, a voluminous literature has emerged for modeling the...
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Exchange rate forecasts are generated using some popular monetary models of exchange rates in conjunction with several estimation techniques. We propose an alternative set of criteria for evaluating forecast rationality which entails the following requirements: the forecast and the actual series...
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Using research designs patterned after randomized experiments, many recent economic studies examine outcome measures for treatment groups and comparison groups that are not randomly assigned. By using variation in explanatory variables generated by changes in state laws, government draft...
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series relations and to ascertain whether various adaptive forecasting techniques successfully handle any such instability … representative U.S. monthly postwar macroeconomic time series, constituting 5700 bivariate forecasting relations. The tests indicate … widespread instability in univariate and bivariate autoregressive models. However, adaptive forecasting models, in particular …
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We compare the out-of-sample forecasting performance of univariate homoskedastic, GARCH, autoregressive and …
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medium and long term forecasting. In this paper, we develop conditions under which a misspecified ARCH model successfully … performs both tasks, filtering and forecasting. The key requirement (in addition to the conditions for consistent filtering) is …
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