This paper proposes to decompose non-linear models deduced from a latent regression framework using the latent …

retransformation problem of logged health care expenditure, using generalized linear models. Our sample is the 2009 data for 4 …

The debate on the forecasting ability in economics of non-linear models has a long history, and the Great Recession … provides us with an opportunity for a re-assessment of the forecasting performance of several classes of non-linear models … that, on average, non-linear models do not outperform standard linear specifications, even during the Great Recession …