We consider the problem of forecasting a single time series, y(t+1), using a linear regression model with k predictor variables, X(t), when each predictor makes a small but nonzero marginal contribution to the forecast. It is well known that OLS is inadmissable when k is at least 3. Although...

An important question in applied work is how to bootstrap autoregressive processes involving highly persistent time series of unknown order of integration. In this paper, we show that in many cases of interest in applied work the standard bootstrap algorithm for unrestricted autoregressions...

A common problem in out-of-sample prediction is that there are potentially many relevant predictors that individually have only weak explanatory power. We propose bootstrap aggregation of pre-test predictors (or bagging for short) as a means of constructing forecasts from multiple regression...