AN EMPIRICAL COMPARISON OF METHODS FOR FORECASTING USING MANY PREDICTORS
AN EMPIRICAL COMPARISON OF METHODS FOR FORECASTING USING MANY PREDICTORS
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使用多种预测因子进行预测的方法的实证比较
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2005
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通讯作者:
M. Watson
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J. Stock;M. Watson
This paper provides a simple shrinkage representation that describes the operational characteristics of various forecasting methods that are applicable when there are a large number of orthogonal predictors (such as principal components). These methods include pretest methods, Bayesian model averaging, empirical Bayes, and bagging. We then compare these and other many-predictor forecasting methods in the context of macroeconomic forecasting (real activity and inflation) using 131 monthly predictors with monthly U.S. economic time series data, 1959:1 - 2003:12. The theoretical shrinkage representations serve to inform our empirical comparison of these forecasting methods.