Improved tests for forecast comparisons in the presence of instabilities

Of interest is comparing the out-of-sample forecasting performance of two competing models in the presence of possible instabilities. To that effect, we suggest using simple structural change tests, sup-Wald and UDmax for changes in the mean of the loss differences. It is shown that Giacomini and Ro...

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Main Author: Martins, L. F. (author)
Other Authors: Perron, P. (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10071/12874
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.iscte-iul.pt:10071/12874