Professors Eric Ghysels, Massimiliano Marcellino and Jonas Straukas will a three-day course entitled “What's New in Mixed Frequency Data (MIDAS), with Applications to Machine Learning and Big Data”. The focus of the course is the use of mixed frequency data in economics and finance. A...

Professor Wouter den Haan and Dr Pontus Rendahl will teach the course. It is primarily aimed at participants in the Euro Area Business Cycle Network but applications will also be considered from doctoral students, post-doctoral researchers and economists working in central banks and government...

Topics: I. Forecast Evaluation A. Review of standard results B. Comparison of a small number of non-nested models: Diebold / Mariano / West (DMW) statistic; asymptotic irrelevance C. Comparison of a small number of nested models D. Comparison of a large number of models II. Present value models...