Forecasts of U.S. short-term interest rates: a flexible forecast combination approach

Massimo Guidolin and Allan Timmerman

No 2005-059, Working Papers from Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Abstract: This paper develops a flexible approach to combine forecasts of future spot rates with forecasts from time-series models or macroeconomic variables. We find empirical evidence that accounting for both regimes in interest rate dynamics and combining forecasts from different models helps improve the out-of-sample forecasting performance for US short-term rates. Imposing restrictions from the expectations hypothesis on the forecasting model are found to help at long forecasting horizons.

Keywords: Interest rates; Forecasting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.20955/wp.2012.030

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