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A framework for economic forecasting

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NEIL R. ERICSSON
JAIME MARQUEZ

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This paper proposes a tripartite framework of design, evaluation, and post-evaluation analysis for generating and interpreting economic forecasts. This framework?s value is illustrated by re-examining mean square forecast errors from dynamic models and nonlinearity biases from empirical forecasts of US external trade. Previous studies have examined properties such as nonlinearity bias and the possible nonmonotonicity and nonexistence of mean square forecast errors in isolation from other aspects of the forecasting process, resulting in inefficient forecasting techniques and seemingly puzzling phenomena. The framework developed reveals how each such property follows from systematically integrating all aspects of the forecasting process.

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Article provided by Royal Economic Society in its journal The Econometrics Journal.

Volume (Year): 1 (1998)
Issue (Month): ConferenceIssue ()
Pages: C228-C266
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Keywords: Forecasts; Mean square forecast error; Monte Carlo; Nonlinearity bias; Trade balance.;

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  1. Neil R. Ericsson, 2001. "Forecast uncertainty in economic modeling," International Finance Discussion Papers 697, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.). [Downloadable!]
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  3. Neil R. Ericsson, 2000. "Predictable uncertainty in economic forecasting," International Finance Discussion Papers 695, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.). [Downloadable!]
  4. Daniel J. Wilson, 2001. "Embodying embodiment in a structural, macroeconomic input-output model," Working Papers in Applied Economic Theory 2001-18, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. [Downloadable!]
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  5. Jenny Li & Peter Winker, 2003. "Time Series Simulation with Quasi Monte Carlo Methods," Computational Economics, Springer, vol. 21(1), pages 23-43, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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