, stochastic volatility coupled with fat tails, GARCH and mixture of innovation models. The comparison is based on the accuracy of … volatility specifications, in terms of point forecasting to some degree and density forecasting to a greater degree. …

, stochastic volatility coupled with fat tails, GARCH and mixture of innovation models. The comparison is based on the accuracy of … volatility specifications, in terms of point forecasting to some degree and density forecasting to a greater degree. …

Small or medium-scale VARs are commonly used in applied macroeconomics for forecasting and evaluating the shock … instability in a forecasting context. While none of the methods clearly emerges as best, some techniques turn out to be useful to … improve the forecasting performance. …