The recent introduction into the Italian mutual fund market of Morningstar performance rating of private institutions gives rise to the question of what is the relation between this relative benchmark measure and the other traditional performance measures. This paper provides a comprehensive...

The aim of this work is to investigate whether the combination of forecasts plays an important role in the improvement of forecast accuracy Particular attention is paid to: (a) the methods of forecasting (the methods compared are neural networks, fuzzy logic, GARCH models, switching regime and...

The intent of this paper is the construction of an econometric model able to produce reliable and reasonable forecasts for the US dollar/Euro real exchange rate. In order to achieve this aim, an area-wide model is analysed. The aggregation is motivated by the fact that the Euro-zone is under a...