We report an exploratory analysis of an interesting and important type of forecast data set. As is common for macroeconomic variables, forecasts from a large panel are available for annual macroeconomic aggregates. Although only a few years of accumulated experience are at hand, the data set is...

We study the predictability of equity risk premiums for UK equity indexes, in particular whether stylized facts found for the US stock market also apply to the UK market. We compare the performance of economic and technical indicators with a particular focus on the time-varying nature of...

This paper investigates forecasting US Treasury bond and Dollar Eurocurrency rates using the stochastic unit root (STUR) model of Leybourne et al. (1996), and the stochastic cointegration (SC) model of Harris et al. (2002, 2006). Both models have time-varying parameter representations and are...