Colino, Evelyn V.; Irwin, Scott H.; Garcia, Philip; … - In: Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 37 (2012) 2
in an out-of-sample context. Price forecasts from four widely-recognized outlook programs are combined with futures …This paper investigates whether the accuracy of outlook hog price forecasts can be improved using composite forecasts …-of-sample evaluation after permitting model specification and appropriate composite-weight training periods. Results show that futures and …