Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5106373 | International Journal of Forecasting | 2017 | 13 Pages |
Abstract
A longstanding finding in the forecasting literature is that averaging the forecasts from a range of models often improves upon forecasts based on a single model, with equal weight averaging working particularly well. This paper analyzes the effects of trimming the set of models prior to averaging. We compare different trimming schemes and propose a new approach based on Model Confidence Sets that takes into account the statistical significance of the out-of-sample forecasting performance. In an empirical application to the forecasting of U.S. macroeconomic indicators, we find significant gains in out-of-sample forecast accuracy from using the proposed trimming method.
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Authors
Jon D. Samuels, Rodrigo M. Sekkel,