Colino, Evelyn V.; Irwin, Scott H.; Garcia, Philip - Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, … - 2009
in an out-of-sample context. Price forecasts from four wellrecognized outlook programs are combined with futures …-based forecasts, ARIMA, and unrestricted Vector Autoregressive (VAR) models. Quarterly data are available from 1975.I through 2007.IV … composite-weight training periods. Results show that futures and numerous composite procedures outperform outlook forecasts. At …