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We document a substantial increase in downside risk to US economic growth over the last 30 years. By modelling secular trends and cyclical changes of the predictive density of GDP growth, we find an accelerating decline in the skewness of the conditional distributions, with significant,...
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We demonstrate that the parameters controlling skewness and kurtosis in popular equity return models estimated at daily frequency can be obtained almost as precisely as if volatility is observable by simply incorporating the strong information content of realized volatility measures extracted...
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uncertainty, model uncertainty and robust time varying model weights, are compared in terms of forecast accuracy and economic … gains using financial and macroeconomic time series. The results indicate that the proposed time varying model weight … returns on the S&P 500 index, time varying model weights provide improved forecasts with substantial economic gains in an …
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uncertainty, model uncertainty and robust time varying model weights, are compared in terms of forecast accuracy and economic … gains using financial and macroeconomic time series. The results indicate that the proposed time varying model weight … returns on the S&P 500 index, time varying model weights provide improved forecasts with substantial economic gains in an …
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, which are subject to large estimation errors and conditional on time. We propose a model accounting for factor dynamics in a …
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Investors have increasing interests in sophisticated yet transparent analytic tools to handle model uncertainty, tail risk and market dynamics. This paper demonstrates how macroeconomic factor models, based on Bayesian model averaging (BMA), can help address the challenges in some specific...
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We examine forecast accuracy and efficiency of the Social Security Administration’s projections for cost rate, trust fund balance, trust fund ratio made during 1980-2020 with horizons up to 95 years. We find that the reported deterioration in the accuracy of the forecasts during 2010’s has...
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We develop a new variational Bayes estimation method for large-dimensional sparse vector autoregressive models with exogenous predictors. Unlike existing Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) and variational Bayes (VB) algorithms, our approach is not based on a structural form representation of the...
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accommodate time-varying predictability of individual assets and choosing between them at portfolio revision dates based on …
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integrated framework to examine whether a real-time optimizing investor can benefit from the stock market by allocating assets … on the output of the forecasting model. All aforementioned steps only use data up to the current time and before the … forecasting time. The results are compared to common benchmarks such as the buy-and-hold strategy and additional benchmarks that …
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