We examine forecasting performance of the recent fractionally cointegrated vector autoregressive (FCVAR) model. The model is applied to daily polling data of political support in the United Kingdom for 2010 - 2015. We compare with popular competing models and at various forecast horizons. Our...

We model and forecast commodity spot and futures prices using fractionally cointegrated vector autoregressive (FCVAR) models generalizing the well-known (non-fractional) CVAR model to accommodate fractional integration. In our empirical analysis to daily data on 17 commodity markets, the...