Forecasting macroeconomic variables using diffusion indexes in short samples with structural change / Anindya Banerjee, Massimiliano Marcellino, Igor Masten -- Predictive inference under model misspecification / Nii Ayi Armah, Norman R. Swanson -- Forecasting persistent data with possible...

We introduce extensions of the Realized Exponential GARCH model (REGARCH) that capture the evident high persistence typically observed in measures of financial market volatility in a tractable fashion. The extensions decompose conditional variance into a short-term and a long-term component. The...

We examine the role of structural breaks in forecasting stock return volatility. We begin by testing for structural breaks in the unconditional variance of daily returns for the S&P 500 market index and ten sectoral stock indices for 9/12/1989–1/19/2006 using an iterative cumulative sum of...