The aim of this paper is to build a tool for performing forecasting exercises, allowing to obtain a reliable estimate … forecasting of twelve-month percentage variations of the Italian consumer price index. The starting point of the model is the …

suboptimal for forecasting purposes. The paper proposes the use of a class of shrinkage estimators that includes the Ridge … estimator for forecasting time series, with a special attention to GARCH and ACD models. The local large sample properties of …-daily financial durations forecasting application. The empirical application shows that an appropriate shrinkage forecasting …

This paper assesses the performance of volatility forecasting using focused selection and combination strategies to … include relevant explanatory variables in the forecasting model. The focused selection/combination strategies consist of … BIC. The methodology is applied to a daily recursive 1--step ahead value--at--risk (VaR) forecasting exercise of 4 widely …